J. M. Roberts Quotes
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!
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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
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I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
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It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.
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Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
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I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
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Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.
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One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.
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For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.
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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
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I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.
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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
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I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.
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Bump in my hoopty hoopty hoop. I own that. And I aint payin my rent this month. I owe that.
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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
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If we hadn't done anything, we would be $70 million in the hole.
