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

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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.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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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.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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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.
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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.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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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.
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I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.
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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.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
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Life outside of Earth is probably going to be really hard to find.
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I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.
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How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?