J. M. Roberts Quotes
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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I am confident of doing well because I am enjoying my sport again.
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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
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I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Largely, now, it was not anger he felt, but rather a kind of bone-scraping, quiet, ever-present sorrow. To come to the place that was supposed to stay the same, to come and find it changed. Dr. Miller had warned him against what he called the 'geographic cure.' You can't fix yourself by going somewhere else, he'd said. You'll always take yourself along.
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There's a lot of confusion. There's a lot frustration and anger.
