Mary Roach Quotes
I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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America is a meritocracy.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
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Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.
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The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.
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It is potentially a harmful message to very young kids.
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William Boss Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.
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I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
