Mary Roach Quotes
Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.
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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
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The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
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When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
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The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.
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Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.
