J. M. Roberts Quotes
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace -
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse -
My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
Kat Dahlia -
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
Rachel Dratch -
My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
Naomi Klein -
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
Nancy Gibbs -
It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
Sally Hawkins -
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith -
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.
Harlan Coben -
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl -
It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
Adam Cohen -
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson -
I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
Gary Johnson
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Konrad Lorenz -
There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.
Wayne Rogers -
Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
Wanda Sykes -
I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
Queen Latifah -
You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.
Meg Whitman -
We really wanted to find a way to work more actively with orchestras.
J. M. Roberts