J. M. Roberts Quotes
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There is always pressure in football.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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I've been very lucky.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.
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I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
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I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
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Our father always said, 'She'll come back to us.
