Mary Roach Quotes
If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I don't like controversy.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
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It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
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If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.
