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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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
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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.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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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.
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You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
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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?'
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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.
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Everything is politically correct nowadays.
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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.
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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.
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
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Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
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Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
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I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting.
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Women's issues have always been a part of my life.
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There's nothing I'm embarrassed about.
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But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.
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Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
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Two forms or species are sympatric, if they occur together, that is if their areas of distribution overlap or coincide. Two forms (or species) are allapatric, if they do not occur together, that is if they exclude each other geographically. The term allopatric is primarily useful in denoting geographic representatives.
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
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While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.
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When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.
