Julia Roberts Quotes
You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.
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Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?
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We can work with anybody. I mean, we passed the 9/11 health bill with Tom Cotton. Most people would assume I wouldn't be able to work with Tom Cotton and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
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I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
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It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.
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You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
