Dallas Roberts Quotes

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

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• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Day
  • Daily
  • Changes

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

  

  Os Guinness
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Seed

• Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Here
  • Communism
  • Russians

• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Simple

• President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Political
  • Legal

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Live
  • Reality

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Say
  • Much
  • Gonna

• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Problem
  • Where

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pressure

• I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

  

  Blair Underwood
  • Done
  • Kids
  • Father

• There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing

• Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Friends

• China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Society
  • Responsibility
  • See

• Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.'

  

  Percy Sledge
  • Remember

• The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Career
  • Boxes
  • Just Because