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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Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
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Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.
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In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
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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.
