Cokie Roberts Quotes
I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
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I'm very obsessed with pop culture of the mid-century and it goes hand-in-hand with the music that I studied in school.
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The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.
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A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don't talk about it.
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I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.
