Mary Roach Quotes
I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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Midi is my hobby.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.
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The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
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I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
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I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.
