J. M. Roberts Quotes
The best job in the world, ... I love to entertain, so every time I do it, I'm chasing the balls, so to speak. People always greet me with a smile, and within seconds we're all laughing together.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
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The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
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Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.
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The best job in the world, ... I love to entertain, so every time I do it, I'm chasing the balls, so to speak. People always greet me with a smile, and within seconds we're all laughing together.
