J. M. Roberts Quotes
When we set high expectations for people we usually get disappointed and set them up for failure, it is best to accept them as they are and encourage them to reach their full potential.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Age for me is just a number.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.
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I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.
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I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.
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I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.
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The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.
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When we set high expectations for people we usually get disappointed and set them up for failure, it is best to accept them as they are and encourage them to reach their full potential.
