Ruby Wax Quotes
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
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So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.
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Having 'The Ultimate Fighter' was the thing that did it for us, live fighting on TV. That's what we had to do, was get a live fight on TV. It couldn't have worked out better.
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At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, 'You gave hope to other balding men.' My new epitaph: 'Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.'
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One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
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The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
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The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.
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In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.
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My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
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The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
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Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.
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I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.
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Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
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My whole career has been an act of revenge.
