Arik Roper Quotes

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

Arik Roper

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Look

• We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • Community
  • Drug

• Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stars

• We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • You
  • Couple
  • Pride

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • Me
  • Expectation

• What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Purpose

• Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Father
  • Government
  • Gun

• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Beauty
  • Garden

• It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Changes

• Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Hell

• There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Good
  • Job
  • Age

• If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Me
  • Player

• Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.

  

  James Lankford
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff

• The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Power
  • American

• I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

  

  Arik Roper
  • Music
  • Art
  • Combining