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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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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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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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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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
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This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private. Always have an ace in the hole.
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The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.
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I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
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A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
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The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
