Ruby Wax Quotes
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
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To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
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Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
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To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.
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I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.
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Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
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I generally will answer any question about anything.
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Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
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I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
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Never yet was a springtime,Late though lingered the snow,That the sap stirred not at the whisperOf the southwind, sweet and low;Never yet was a springtimeWhen the buds forgot to blow.
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After Notre Dame, what is there?
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Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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People who say ... they're perfectly fine are more insane than the rest of us.
