J. M. Roberts Quotes

I have always supported, and support today, equal rights for women, particularly in the workplace.

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• My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Brothers
  • Park
  • Bench

• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Come
  • Radical
  • Libertarians

• My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Good
  • Peace

• I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Mysterious

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Celebrity
  • Ways

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Need
  • Leader
  • More

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Islam

• I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Awesome

• I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Children
  • Father

• And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Read
  • Theater
  • Journalism

• I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Real
  • Team
  • Learning

• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Something
  • More
  • Jazz

• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Done
  • Courage

• When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Road
  • Take

• We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

  

  Richard Schiff
  • Dream
  • Gratification
  • Brilliance

• If your strategy calls for you to be in America, then you will go into America. If your strategy calls for you to be in M&A, then you'll do an acquisition. You usually acquire a company to acquire technology, geographic advantage, etc. Similarly, geographic expansion is very much like M&A. It's done to advance a strategy.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Done
  • America
  • Technology

• When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw. I had to keep runnin' from one end to the other.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Respect

• If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Women
  • Live

• I have always supported, and support today, equal rights for women, particularly in the workplace.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Women
  • Rights
  • Equal