Mary Roach Quotes
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
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When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
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I secretly want to be a rapper!
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13
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My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read,'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at largeDown in the meadow, where is richer feed,And will not mind to hit their proper targe.
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He is a cool cat. I was surprised when he had a heart problem...People think my film with Mani, ‘Nayakan’, is my best work. To an extent it's true. But I'd like to think my best is yet to come.
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Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
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I think China is in a chaos now and it could be more chaos. It’s an orderly chaos. It’s a party that ruthlessly violates every human’s basic rights to serve its own purpose.'
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The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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People want me to run for president all the time … I don’t like it. Can you imagine how controversial I’d be? You think about Bill Clinton and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?
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Flatulence peaks twice a day... five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner.
