Gabrielle Roth Quotes
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
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I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.
