Mary Roach Quotes
Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
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The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing.
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I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.
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The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.
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Dance is a great way to express yourself.
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Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
