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 like to call myself the 'director of family and business affairs,' ... Your overall job is child care, housework -- and business.
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I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his father's weaponry collection is there as well.
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I remember it all for the most part. I remember it well enough that I don't need to see it again. I felt like (the arm) was going to fall off, so I was just trying to hold it. I've never felt anything like that, period.
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I'll get arrested. Whatever happens to me, fair enough. I think about the next one I'm going to do. But I just want people to laugh.
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I know it wasn't that good. But I wasn't ready for the re-mix. You gotta understand that.
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I have to drive to Wilburton three times a week. There's no telling how much gas money we spend,
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I have seen them giving meals away, but aside from that, I have not seen them having a tremendous presence in giving out the resources they collected nationally, ... A lot of residents I have spoken to feel that, in a time of need, they didn't have their act together.
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I have to tell you I am losing a little patience with what appears to me to be an almost pathological obsession with calling into question the actions of men and women who are on the front lines of the war on terror.
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I have no good theories about why Randal survived. I find it no less than a miracle given what I've learned about the environment he was in for over 40 hours.
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I had the perfect number for my 4-iron second shot there. The 18th hole was a culmination of the hard work today. It was a real struggle, almost the exact opposite of last Sunday. ... I didn't want it to come down to the last hole, but I knew I could do something there, told myself I had the opportunity to do something great.
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