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Cokie Roberts Quotes

Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

Cokie Roberts

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 27, 1943

Topics

History Woman Strong Think You Know

An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.

Jim Nabors

Change Success People You Career

Coming out of 'Wretched and Divine,' I was still wanting to explore the more theatrical elements of songwriting. That led to Andy Black.

Andy Biersack

Black More Explore Songwriting Out

Parenting is not just about you and your kid; it's also about whomever you're parenting your child with. So there is a kind of 'awareness' involved for everybody. It's all about the way you interact with your child and participate in your child's life.

Anna Getty

Life Parenting Child You Kind Way

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Mercedes McCambridge

Marriage Alcohol Second Lot Had

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce

Legs Emergency Coward Who Thinks

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

Martin Rees

Start Think Now Years Different Era

Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'

Mike Birbiglia

Father Path Team Growing Up You

I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.

Judy Sheindlin

Car Moment Stress People I Can Over

Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.

Jason Kander

Voting Political Strategy Party Been

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Jon Favreau

Fun Nothing Splash Everybody Movie

The best wrestlers don't hurt anyone for real.

Bret Hart

Best Hurt Real Wrestlers Anyone

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Family Faith Community Culture Tea