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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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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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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One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
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Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.
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I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.
