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I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.


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ROGER AILES Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is...
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cli...
ROGER GOODELL From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
ROGER EBERT If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...
ROGER ZELAZNY It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the bi...
ROGER BART No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever b...
ROGER EBERT In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.
ROGER AILES Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
ROGER MAHONY A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have b...
ROGER MOORE I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign po...
ROGER STONE Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert
ROGER EBERT Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
ROGER CRAWFORD I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise...
ROGER ZELAZNY Burberry makes the best version of the traditional trench coat, which can have a zipper and button-i...
ROGER STONE Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unkno...
ROGER EBERT I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.
ROGER MOORE When I went to Hollywood, I had to work out in a gym. The idea was that I should look like Daniel Cr...
ROGER MOORE Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temp...
ROGER STAUBACH I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.
ROGER AVARY Look at the greatest dressers in history - Philadelphia socialite and diplomat Angier Biddle Duke, S...
ROGER STONE