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OSCAR ROBERTSON Basketball is basketball.
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OSCAR ROBERTSON Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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PAT ROBERTSON People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
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PAT ROBERTSON I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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SI ROBERTSON Music should never be harmless.
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OSCAR ROBERTSON We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hu...
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PHIL ROBERTSON It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
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PAT ROBERTSON Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
PAT ROBERTSON I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character act...
BRITT ROBERTSON People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON He is the god of epiphanies—sudden spiritual manifestations—and of transformation, and there is ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON Some years later, Zeus and Hera were arguing about who got more pleasure from sex: men or women. To ...
ROBIN ROBERTSON Sense is nonsense to a fool.
ROBIN ROBERTSON What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the r...
ROBIN ROBERTSON I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck an...
PHIL ROBERTSON You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's ...
BRITT ROBERTSON It's about 50 percent more fuel-efficient than vehicles of today. It's totally clean. Absolutely zer...
BERNARD ROBERTSON We make no attempt to try to run the vehicle on the electric motor,
BERNARD ROBERTSON People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy, ... The way to get this car to market is to make trad...
BERNARD ROBERTSON People won't pay exclusively for fuel economy. The way to get this car to market is to make trade-of...
BERNARD ROBERTSON Cricket will go on and we have a match on Friday. I don't have any further comment to make.
BERNARD ROBERTSON Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
PAT ROBERTSON Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs...
BETH ROBERTSON After 9/11, families were looking for things to do together and fun that was closer to home, and tha...
BETH ROBERTSON There are a lot of things in motion that will contribute to more bills being presented electronicall...
BETH ROBERTSON One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.
BETH ROBERTSON At this point, the market isn't that developed yet. Ten percent of all consumer bills will be presen...
BETH ROBERTSON It was great, a fabulous year. It was different than any other market I've been through in 36 years....
BETH ROBERTSON Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs...
BETH ROBERTSON I'm not even a little bit talented at the red-carpet makeup thing, but recently I did learn how ...
BRITT ROBERTSON I'm just really happy I can be a part of this.
ANN ROBERTSON That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.
ANN ROBERTSON They were there more to control the city rather than rescue anyone.
ANN ROBERTSON It's like we kind of screwed up.
ANN ROBERTSON We learned a lot about ourselves today. There were a lot of positives that came out of today, and we...
AMY ROBERTSON Our goal for both field hockey camps is to challenge the participants and to make sure that they hav...
AMY ROBERTSON This is the best all-around field hockey class we have ever signed at Indiana. They possess a high l...
AMY ROBERTSON