J. M. Roberts Quotes
I feel I should stay away from discussing specific cases that may come before the court.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
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Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.
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The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.
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I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.
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It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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The human spirit must prevail over technology.
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To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
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I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.
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You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?
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I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.
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I feel I should stay away from discussing specific cases that may come before the court.
