Ruby Wax Quotes
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.
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I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.
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At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.
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It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
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America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.
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I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.
