Richard Roeper Quotes
Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Quotes to Explore
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
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As my poor father used to sayIn 1863,Once people start on all this ArtGoodbye, moralitee!
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A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog.
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There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in Avignon is a very quiet one. I have an apartment that looks over the whole city. I can drop into town, but a lot of the time I write from home. In some respects I still live a very quiet, simple life.
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I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I'm still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very... I had this violence... I still get angry. But I don't break things; I'm not hysterical.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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I always wrote about myself in the third person. I knew how to promote myself so it sounded intelligent. I know how to package myself.
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Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.
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My kid really loves bugs.
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Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.
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As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.
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The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
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Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates interact more commonly with graduate students.
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How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.
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There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.
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I am addicted to research, let's say.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live.
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Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
