Cokie Roberts Quotes
I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
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I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
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It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.
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I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.
