Richard Roeper Quotes
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
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I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
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Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.
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It took him 45 minutes to say his prayers in the morning. He mentioned everyone by name and his concerns with them. He had to schedule time to pray because he didn't feel it appropriate to just mention them as a group.
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It's just fun to have Mark in the league. He's easy to tweak.
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As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.
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What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.
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I'll never fall in love again, I'll never fall in love again I will never give my heart away till my life will end Baby, never fall in love again, never fall in love again There will never be another you, girl, please understand.
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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
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I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
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I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
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I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.
