Cokie Roberts Quotes
People came through. They all came together, they didn't worry about ratings, the stuff we spend way to much time worrying about. They became a community.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
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I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.
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Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
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To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?
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People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.
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People came through. They all came together, they didn't worry about ratings, the stuff we spend way to much time worrying about. They became a community.
