Mary Roach Quotes
I've always been a bit of a space geek. I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy tank, which is this biblically sized pool where they train astronauts. And it was just the coolest thing.Mary Roach
Quotes to Explore
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
Olly Murs -
As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
E. W. Howe -
To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
Jack Reed -
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Salman Rushdie
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
Barry Ritholtz -
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson -
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark -
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Carl von Clausewitz -
The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
Xavier Becerra -
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
Kate Bosworth
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
Raghuram Rajan -
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
Carine Roitfeld -
When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
Laura Schlessinger -
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
Bear Grylls -
I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
Victor Oladipo
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Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.
David Harsanyi -
I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio films - usually to the consternation of the studios.
Doug Liman -
But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.
Lafcadio Hearn -
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
Natasha Lyonne -
I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.
Kris Carr -
I've always been a bit of a space geek. I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy tank, which is this biblically sized pool where they train astronauts. And it was just the coolest thing.
Mary Roach