Cokie Roberts Quotes
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
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“One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.”
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Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.
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Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
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No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.
