Cokie Roberts Quotes
There's a view in this country that everybody's going through what they're going through for the first time.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.
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Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.
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My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
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Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.
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I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.
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There's a view in this country that everybody's going through what they're going through for the first time.
