Cokie Roberts Quotes

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

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• The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

  

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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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• The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

  

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• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

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• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

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• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

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• I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

  

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• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

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• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

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• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

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• The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

  

  Cokie Roberts
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