J. M. Roberts Quotes
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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It's much more fun, I think, to watch something physical than just heads talking to each other. I like watching people fall down and push each other.
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Sometimes things fall apart so other things can fall into place.
