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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.


Roger Von Oech

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ROGER MCGUINN Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
ROGER MILLER The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.
ROGER STONE The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men...
ROGER EBERT Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against t...
ROGER WICKER The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes ...
ROGER MAHONY My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
ROGER MOORE ' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p...
ROGER EBERT In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.
ROGER STAUBACH Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashi...
ROGER STONE You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
ROGER EBERT How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to ...
ROGER STONE Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaig...
ROGER STONE Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media ...
ROGER STONE I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists a...
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