Ruby Wax Quotes

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Ruby Wax

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
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  • Parents
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• In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Cool
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• When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Dream
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• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Justice
  • Opinion
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• Fantasy isn't something you run out of.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • You
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• Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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  • Bear

• I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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  • Will
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• Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

  

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• I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

  

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• I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.

  

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• You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.

  

  Frank Grillo
  • Long
  • America

• I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, you can, if you want to. It's probably just going to feel like most people's.' I take it as a compliment.

  

  Charlie White
  • People
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• If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

  

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• Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

  

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  • Freedom

• He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• I dream, therefore I exist.

  

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• You're going to tell me what I want to know. It's just a question of how much you want it to hurt.

  

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• We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
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• The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Beauty
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• I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Husband
  • Boyfriend

• Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

  

  Ruby Wax
  • Boyfriend
  • Jealous
  • Immigrants