Cokie Roberts Quotes
Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.
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Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.
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Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.
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I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.
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It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
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Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.
