J. M. Roberts Quotes
I think what distinguishes this fair is the fact that everybody is involved -- city fathers, township trustees and the city workers even.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
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Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
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I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.
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It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.
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To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
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I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
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If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with a wild god.)
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I think what distinguishes this fair is the fact that everybody is involved -- city fathers, township trustees and the city workers even.
