Mary Roach Quotes
It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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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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Home is where your rump rests.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
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Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.
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I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.
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It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.
