J. M. Roberts Quotes
I've tried to get them to understand that on the road you have to take the game. You have to win it. It's not going to be handed to you no matter what the situation is, and teams are not going to fold at home. You must take the game.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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The scheme they had on defense for us was something quite a few people up here can play.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
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I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.
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I've tried to get them to understand that on the road you have to take the game. You have to win it. It's not going to be handed to you no matter what the situation is, and teams are not going to fold at home. You must take the game.
