Chris Roberson Quotes

One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.

Chris Roberson

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• In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Immigrants

• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

• There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Different
  • Way
  • Best

• I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Internet
  • Afraid
  • Computers

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wish

• I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Care
  • Phone
  • Stressful

• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

  Jack Paar
  • God
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Together

• Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Before
  • Magazine
  • Gothic

• I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Small
  • Attitude

• Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Power
  • Imagination
  • Innovation

• The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Death
  • Genius
  • Stone

• I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Wardrobe

• I personally like to do independent films.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Like
  • Independent
  • Films

• I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Just like all these guys feel comfortable here, I want to feel comfortable, too. Why do I always have to have my back against the wall and have to prove something to everybody? You get tired of it. After a while, it becomes -- .

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Why
  • Team
  • Wall

• There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Souls
  • Courageous
  • Impels

• I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Attention
  • Jump

• One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.

  

  Chris Roberson