Cokie Roberts Quotes

There's a view in this country that everybody's going through what they're going through for the first time.

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Today
  • Same
  • Started

• 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.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Me

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Famous
  • Rich

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Pictures
  • Too

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• 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.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Needs
  • Story

• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Dance

• 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.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• 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.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Believe
  • Understand

• When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • People
  • Band

• 'Wouldn't you like to come in and have a cup of tea and dry off?''Lady, don't you realize that we don't even have time to pull up our shorts?''Pull up your shorts?''YES, PULL UP OUR SHORTS!' I screamed at her and walked off into the wall of water.

  

  Charles Bukowski
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  • Time
  • Water

• I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• How I was raised is what I am today.

  

  Joan Chen
  • Today

• There's a view in this country that everybody's going through what they're going through for the first time.

  

  Cokie Roberts
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