Mo Rocca (Maurice Alberto Rocca) Quotes

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

Mo Rocca

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• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Crush

• What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • World
  • Future

• People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Listening
  • Sex

• No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Service

• Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • May

• My advice to any teenager would be don't try too hard - just get on with it. That's what I did. Have fun; enjoy life.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Advice

• I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Country
  • Remember

• What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • History
  • Earth

• Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Science
  • Space
  • Wall

• Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  

  Christopher Charles Lloyd

• I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Business
  • Judge

• My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

  

  Lianne La Havas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Dad

• I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Respect

• I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.

  

  Curtis Stone
  • People
  • Time
  • Professional

• How can I join one of the parties? All their slogans and propaganda, it seems so damn - silly. How the hell can I get exited about clean teeth and underarm odor. People kill each other over these trifles... it doesn't make sense. There's going to be suicidal civil war, if that amendment passes, and I'm supposed to join one side or the other?

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • People
  • War
  • Silly

• Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.

  

  Jojo Moyes
  • Long
  • Marriage
  • Obstacles

• When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

  

  James Frey
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Painting

• Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Quality

• I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Always
  • Rules
  • Now

• Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

  

  Madame Roland
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

  

  Chris Priestley
  • Story
  • Narrative
  • Dangers

• I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

  

  Mo Rocca
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Groups