Cokie Roberts Quotes
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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You never know what the future brings.
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Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.
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I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
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It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.
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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
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There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.
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I'm tired of being in love and being all aloneWhen you're so far away from me.I'm tired of making out on the telephoneBecause you're so far away from me.
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I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.
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The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.
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If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.
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Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.
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When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
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I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.
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He's always hoped I would have one. I never have.
