Richard Roeper Quotes

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

Richard Roeper

• Team
• Rooting

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Success
  • Talent

• As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• 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'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • School
  • Never
  • English

• We're not going to see an exclusively robotic factory, but we will see the optimum use of robots and people.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • People

• I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.

  

  Kublai Khan
  • Heard
  • Conquer
  • Empires

• I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Die
  • Day

• A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Team
  • Relationship
  • Sports

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

  

  Richard Roeper
  • Team
  • Rooting