"My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles."

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Mary Roach

#Book Quotes #Databases Quotes #Medical Quotes

“Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.”
“The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
“It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
“[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.”

Source : Siva Vaidhyanathan (2005). “The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System”, p.124, Basic Books
“He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.”
“Don't judge a book by its thickness either.”
“I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'”
“I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.”

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