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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We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
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The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.
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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a father figure to me. I would have done anything for my brother - I loved him so much.
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I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.
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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.
