Gareth Roberts Quotes
This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.
