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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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

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

  

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• I don't like controversy.

  

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  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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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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• 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
  • People
  • Mind
  • Trying