Roz Chast Quotes

I think, especially with my parents, I wanted to remember who they were. I wanted to remember all of it. I didn't want to purge myself of it. I wanted to remember it.

Roz Chast

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My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.

Jimmy Carter

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I have a lot of lion jewellery and lion art. I also love crystals.

Jillian Hervey

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When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

Andrea Riseborough

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We don't know how many planets we're going to have to examine before we find life, and not finding it on 10 or 100 doesn't mean it's not there. This may be very tricky.

John M. Grunsfeld

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It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

Matt Lauer

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People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Johnny Carson

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In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

Mira Nair

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It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

Brendon Urie

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The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

Lynn Flewelling

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Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

Kiki Smith

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