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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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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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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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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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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I don't like controversy.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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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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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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I think governments can't do much.
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Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.
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It was great to play with some of my old linemates.
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People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.
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... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.
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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.
