J. M. Roberts
J. M. Roberts
John Morris "J. M." Roberts CBEwas a British historian, with significant published works. From 1979 to 1985 he was vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, and from 1985 to 1994, Warden of Merton College, Oxford. He was also well known as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series The Triumph of the West...
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I think we were fortunate to get the win tonight.
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In 25 years in the business, I've never experienced anything more stirring than watching Dan Jansen win his gold medal. It's still the only time I've ever cried in a press box.
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I've tried to get them to understand that on the road you have to take the game. You have to win it. It's not going to be handed to you no matter what the situation is, and teams are not going to fold at home. You must take the game.
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Scott didn't have a good day on the greens today. If he did, I probably don't win the golf tournament.
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One of my favorites is The Sound of Music. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.
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There was a place for males and for females, but what would happen is that, if a single mother had two little girls and a 6-year-old boy and found herself homeless, the little boy could wind up by himself, in a cot next to a drug addict while the females in his family were somewhere else. I just couldn't imagine this. I mean, in a time of crisis, a family should be held together at all costs and here it was that it was the system that was forcing it apart.
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Take the team to the Final Four and win every personal award possible.
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They do a great job of getting into passing lanes. They do a very good job of forcing you to do things that you don't want to do. They do a great job on the glass.
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I wasn't showing him a house, I was showing him a place to leave me.
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It's the combination of songs and styles the band uses that makes them so unique. They have diversity and a witty flare about them that audiences relate to.
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Not knowing is the hardest part. Now what do we do? We keep saying our prayers.
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All of us are sympathetic to the class-size amendment. But each university has classroom needs, too.
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This is bull. Somebody needs to go down.
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They're doing a good job moving toward the higher-growth businesses in terms of wireless and high-speed access, and they've shown a very respectable outcome.