Mary Roach Quotes
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
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What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.
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We are not Argus-eyed, but Argus-eared.
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A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
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The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
