Richard Roeper Quotes

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

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• My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Brothers
  • Park
  • Bench

• The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • World
  • Great
  • Government

• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Know
  • Promise

• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Perfect
  • Accept
  • Strangers

• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Money
  • More
  • Ever

• Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • You
  • Vegetarian

• This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Power
  • Political

• More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • American
  • Words
  • Know

• The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Moments

• You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Time
  • Success

• My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • People
  • Wine
  • Mood

• If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.

  

  James Woods

• Once in a while I do put up a video or a thank you tweet for my fans. I think our interaction cements our bond. Getting so much love from them makes me feel blessed.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Up
  • Blessed

• I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

  

  Kenyon Martin
  • Game
  • Basketball

• Everything is politically correct nowadays.

  

  Corey Lewandowski

• I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.

  

  Ashley Benson
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • People
  • Running
  • Fighting

• There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

  

  James Thurber

• I think Seth McFarlane is brilliant, and I think 'Family Guy' should get an Emmy for sure.

  

  Rekha Sharma
  • Family
  • Brilliant
  • Sure

• As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.

  

  Doc Rivers
  • Team

• And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

  

  Kevin Pollak
  • Funny
  • Team
  • Comedy

• I realized that, for me, great records always moved me with the lyrics and the melodies. And so I said, 'I think I can do it now,' 'cause I found a team of people who understand I didn't want a record that was 'drop it, pop it, shake it' just 'cause I can dance.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • People
  • Great
  • Team

• When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

  

  Richard Roeper
  • Team
  • Rooting