Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes

You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up.

Roz Chast

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• Bed
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• Strokes

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• Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.

  

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• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

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• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
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• I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

  

  Patricia Heaton
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• Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
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• Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
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• Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Death
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• Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Emotional
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• Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Society
  • Revolution
  • Consciousness

• Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
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• I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

  

  Nicki Minaj
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• You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

  

  John Travolta
  • Men
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• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  

  John Travolta
  • Good
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• The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
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• Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Obstacles

• Sometimes we deliberate - for example when we plan a long trip or - if we are not math wizards - when we solve long division problems. However, if we deliberated every time we acted we would never get through the day. Most of the time, we act for reasons without deliberation. I am not just talking about cases of simple, habitual action, like brushing your teeth, but also about more sophisticated action.

  

  Nomy Arpaly
  • Action
  • Plan
  • Deliberate

• Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Dream
  • Feeling
  • Lies

• And at the start of every new day, I still believed I could choose my own beginning, one that was scrubbed clean of everything past

  

  Nami Mun
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Clean

• You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Happens
  • Praying
  • Bed