J. M. Roberts Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe.
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I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.
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Generally, the feeling was the conditions were borderline unsafe to race.
