J. M. Roberts Quotes
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.
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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
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Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.
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God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
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The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.
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Yoga is your mind control capacity.
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I'm really interested in experimental works, so the people that I admired the most was Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein, people from the '20s. Also, I loved John Ford and his westerns. The New Wave was not tender to women.
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One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.
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If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
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...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... These workers ... suffer from general ill-health and an excessive accumulation of unwholesome humors caused by their sedentary life ... so to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life. On the association between chronic inactivity and poor health. Ramazzini urged that workers should at least exercise on holidays.
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Nothing in this world is permanent, the only thing that's permanent is change.
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It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.
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The hiring of permanent replacement workers is under discussion.
