Cokie Roberts Quotes
They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I like things simple.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.
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I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.
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[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.
