J. M. Roberts Quotes
There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.
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When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
