J. M. Roberts Quotes
We have to do a better job of taking care of the basketball, but their pressure had a lot to do with it.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream, as we think, and as we cope with the world about us. But these worlds of fantasy that we form into the solid things around us are the source of our discontent. They inspire our search to find ourselves.
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
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We have to do a better job of taking care of the basketball, but their pressure had a lot to do with it.
