Stephen Root quote: "People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long."

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's ...
STEPHEN ROOT

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lo...
STEPHEN ROOT

In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already ve...
STEPHEN ROOT

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.
STEPHEN ROOT

It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memori...
STEPHEN ROOT

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We d...
STEPHEN ROOT

We all know of course that we cannot abolish all the evils in this world by statute or by the enforc...
ELIHU ROOT

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if ...
ELIHU ROOT

We had to have the mind set that we were going to win. We kept pounding and executing down the stret...
ADAM ROOT

We came out flat. We have to learn to play 32 minutes. But we have another chance.
ADAM ROOT

We have to pound the ball inside. We have the height advantage. We were putting ourselves out of the...
ADAM ROOT

We'll take it. We just need to slow the game down at points and control the ball better.
ADAM ROOT

Men do not fail; they give up trying.
ELIHU ROOT

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the m...
ELIHU ROOT

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
ELIHU ROOT

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
ELIHU ROOT

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith,...
ELIHU ROOT

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solut...
ELIHU ROOT

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, ...
ELIHU ROOT

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rul...
ELIHU ROOT

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, no...
ELIHU ROOT

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicia...
ELIHU ROOT

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men wh...
ELIHU ROOT

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and t...
ELIHU ROOT

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, t...
ELIHU ROOT

I think we have a PR issue, in that people do not think the utility industry has great significant t...
CHRIS ROOT

As a result, we've seen spikes in some dining locations on campus, such as Commons, which is more bu...
JOHN ROOT

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to g...
ELIHU ROOT

Men do not fail; they give up trying
ELIHU ROOT

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
ELIHU ROOT

If you're going to be Johnny-come-lately into this deal... well, gee whiz, you don't have to try and...
DON ROOT

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that co...
ELIHU ROOT

It is when we are up against death, when we find ourselves in despair, that the God of cross is near...
ANDREW ROOT

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get po...
ELIHU ROOT

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct o...
ELIHU ROOT

Men do not fail; they give up trying
ELIHU ROOT

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while...
ELIHU ROOT

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.
ANDREW ROOT

I think the Research Coast is more prominent this year.
DON ROOT

If you don't want to compete, you will continue to be a bedroom community, a bedroom region, for som...
DON ROOT

It's putting us on the national stage, where we'd like to be. I think it let's a lot more people kno...
DON ROOT

This is what we have been trying to position ourselves for over the last two years. We have been wor...
DON ROOT

It's just a ringing endorsement from a well-respected school. You've got to build an extremely stron...
DON ROOT

It's not like they didn't know, and it's not like we didn't ask them to be a part of it.
DON ROOT

In economic development, there are really at least two competitions: One is to get into the game and...
DON ROOT

We're going to do our best to make it easy and try and help people get new jobs, possibly within the...
DAVID ROOT

People are taking it well, but it's hard. We have people here who started working on our first runs ...
DAVID ROOT

When you first introduce physical science, you really want to get kids excited because by the time t...
CHRIS ROOT

There's been a lot made about how they had been drinking - people saying they were drunk or whatever...
GARY ROOT

Anyone who wants to learn how to use this equipment is more than welcome to come by.
GARY ROOT

If he could have just gotten a little closer... Maybe we could have saved him.
GARY ROOT

Shane was sitting right outside the bar watching. But as soon as he took off I knew something was wr...
GARY ROOT

We tried to talk him out of it. But he decided he would go anyway.
GARY ROOT

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the pe...
ELIHU ROOT

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of r...
ELIHU ROOT

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a hab...
ELIHU ROOT

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by jud...
ELIHU ROOT

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to t...
ELIHU ROOT

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the nat...
ELIHU ROOT

The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
WAVERLEY LEWIS ROOT

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuis...
WAVERLEY LEWIS ROOT

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
WAVERLEY LEWIS ROOT

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
ELIAS ROOT BEADLE

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dre...
E. MERRILL ROOT

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
STEPHEN B. STEPHEN LEACOCK

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat...
STEPHEN COVEY

Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can b...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ...
STEPHEN COVEY

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r...
STEPHEN CHOW

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe...
STEPHEN KING

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
STEPHEN COVEY

Listen with your eyes for feelings.
STEPHEN COVEY

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inward...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
STEPHEN KING

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin...
STEPHEN KING

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
STEPHEN KING

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
STEPHEN KING

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
STEPHEN KING

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
STEPHEN KING

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
STEPHEN KING

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
STEPHEN KING

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
STEPHEN KING

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
STEPHEN COVEY

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
STEPHEN COVEY

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
STEPHEN COVEY

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEY

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
STEPHEN COVEY

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain...
STEPHEN HUNTER

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
STEPHEN KINZER

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. ...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
STEPHEN DOUGLAS

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
STEPHEN GARDINER

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn...
STEPHEN COLBERT

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
STEPHEN HAWKING

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...
STEPHEN HAWKING

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin Amer...
STEPHEN KINZER

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a ...
STEPHEN DOBYNS

I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ...
STEPHEN COLBERT

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any ...
STEPHEN DALDRY

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r...
STEPHEN HAWKING

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the...
STEPHEN BATCHELOR

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of...
STEPHEN PHILLIPS

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
STEPHEN REA

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
STEPHEN HARPER

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've be...
STEPHEN CURRY

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY

Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the...
STEPHEN COLLETTI

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
STEPHEN BREYER

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patr...
STEPHEN KINZER

secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING

Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
STEPHEN COVEY

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary...
STEPHEN HOPKINS

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER

I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t...
STEPHEN MORRIS

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other ...
STEPHEN KINZER

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
STEPHEN DORFF

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is bein...
STEPHEN KINZER

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
STEPHEN STILLS

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ...
STEPHEN AMBROSE

I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelat...
STEPHEN MARLEY

Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea...
STEPHEN MARLEY

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh...
STEPHEN HAWKING

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume...
STEPHEN DALDRY

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp...
STEPHEN COLBERT

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i...
STEPHEN COLE

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo...
STEPHEN GRAHAM

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its...
STEPHEN CURRY

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...
STEPHEN COVEY

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
STEPHEN SWID

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
STEPHEN KING

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
STEPHEN KING

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...
STEPHEN HAWKING

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha...
STEPHEN LEVINE

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
STEPHEN LEVINE

(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
STEPHEN KING

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. A...
STEPHEN KINZER

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
STEPHEN KINZER

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY

If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE

There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY

That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING

His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER

After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING

We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. An...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain,...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

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People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

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