J. M. Roberts Quotes
We're concentrating on St. John's and what we're trying to do to build our program. We're trying to get our guys to play at the top level, and we're moving in that direction.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
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I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.
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I don't make any money.
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Every week we've had four or five opportunities to get balls in our hands and we have not been able to, for whatever reason, to either get the fumble or get the interception, ... I don't know how to explain it. But it's put us in a real bind because you're not going to play on that side of the giveaway and takeaway ratio and win many football games.
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In order to have a great rivalry, both teams have to be winning some games. Lately against Dallas, we haven't been able to do that, ... Until we start doing that, it's kind of hard to have a modern-day rivalry.
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Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.
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Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.
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I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.
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We're concentrating on St. John's and what we're trying to do to build our program. We're trying to get our guys to play at the top level, and we're moving in that direction.
