Mem Fox Quotes
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office.
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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.
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The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
