Cokie Roberts Quotes
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
Naveen Jain -
When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
Harlan Coben -
Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
Aaron Neville -
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Harold Brodkey -
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
Eckhart Tolle
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
Jack Kingston -
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Daniel Barenboim -
If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
Adam McKay -
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle -
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
Nancy Kress
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
Barbra Streisand -
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 -
Pilates is great.
Orlando Bloom -
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle -
I love to fly so much.
Karine Vanasse -
I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
Vera Farmiga
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
Tasha Smith -
Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.
Mark Hart Crowded House -
I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.
Emma Roberts -
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
Phillips Brooks -
Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I meant best.
Joanne Rowling -
Times do keep changing - thank God.
Cokie Roberts