J. M. Roberts Quotes

We are taking a look at the use of intelligence, and we're taking a look at the role the Defense Department played, and we're looking at prewar Iraq ... in a careful and deliberate way, because we want to get it right.

J. M. Roberts

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• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Ugly
  • Face

• I don't write about my life in my column.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • Write
  • My Life

• I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Good
  • Action
  • Support

• I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sick
  • Partner
  • Saying

• I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Done

• I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • School
  • Why

• Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Fun
  • Movies
  • Cancer

• When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Book
  • Like
  • Missing

• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Forty

• I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Attention

• Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • American
  • Today
  • Imperialism

• One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Best
  • Justice
  • Option

• Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Childhood

• Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Science
  • Independent
  • Review

• My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Children
  • Family
  • Stupid

• I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Fans

• A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Paris

• It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• To understand something is to be delivered of it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Understand
  • Something
  • Delivered

• It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Role
  • Authority
  • Widow

• When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

  

  Eva Zeisel
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Market

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Sex

• We are taking a look at the use of intelligence, and we're taking a look at the role the Defense Department played, and we're looking at prewar Iraq ... in a careful and deliberate way, because we want to get it right.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Role
  • Defense
  • Iraq