Ruby Wax Quotes

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

Ruby Wax

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• Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Think
  • You
  • Nation

• Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Scary
  • Old

• I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Never

• The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Long
  • Real
  • American

• Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Animal
  • Chaos
  • WIld

• I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Personality

• Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Courage
  • Generosity
  • Seasons

• I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Free
  • Law
  • Golf

• To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Change

• The '60s look wasn't something I consciously chose, but in my late teens, I found myself styling my hair in a retro way and liking clothes - the shapes and silhouettes - that were from that era. They just reflected who I was.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Clothes

• My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Mother
  • Amazing
  • Used

• In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • You
  • Challenge

• Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Up
  • Day
  • Winning

• If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love 'em. They're exactly... well, they're not EXACTLY alike, but they're a little bit alike...

  

  Zach Galifianakis

• I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Up
  • Change
  • Year

• Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Earth
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• The new Bournville College is not only a magnificent building and a great landmark but a source of pride for Longbridge and its communities. The College will no doubt help provide the education, skills and confidence that is so desperately needed to uplift and develop the lives of so many living in Longbridge and surrounding areas.

  

  Waqar Azmi
  • Community
  • Doubt
  • Building

• How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

  

  Ruby Wax
  • Brain
  • Body
  • Sick