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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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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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.
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Do you think you are protecting somebody by taking away seven words?
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I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
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Radio helps you break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.
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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.
