J. M. Roberts Quotes

They didn't have a guy who could guard me. When I could drive and dish off, we could get baskets.

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• Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Information

• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • True
  • Me

• There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Generation
  • Passionate
  • Empowering

• Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Hurt

• I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Breathe

• I was writing a lot even as a kid.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Writing
  • Kid
  • Even

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Job
  • Game
  • Taken

• Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Free

• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Will

• Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Health
  • Care
  • Gay

• I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of 'The Wire' in a month, and she was not happy about it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Happy
  • Wife
  • Tomorrow

• I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Life
  • God
  • Money

• I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

  

  Earl King
  • Jump
  • Head
  • Gymnastics

• These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Book
  • Vision
  • Discrimination

• I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Career
  • Play
  • Characters

• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Think
  • Just

• One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Live
  • Way
  • Peace

• If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.

  

  Odd Nerdrum
  • Men
  • She
  • Guy

• The weekend after 'Kimmy' started streaming on Netflix, I did notice a definite difference in people on the street recognizing you. I think that's such a strange thing to happen. It's like, you asked for it, you went and put yourself in the public eye, so don't be surprised people recognize you, but that part can be strange.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • People
  • Weekend

• And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

  

  Mats Sundin
  • Good
  • Bad

• There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Time

• They didn't have a guy who could guard me. When I could drive and dish off, we could get baskets.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Guy
  • Guard