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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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.
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Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!
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I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
