Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
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I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.
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You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.
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I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.
