"All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?"

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Mary Roach

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“You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.”
“It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.”
“For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.”
“No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?”
“I think I get laid less now than I used to, because Iâ€™m way more paranoid now.”

Source : "Gerard Butler In ‘Men’s Journal’: Talks Getting Laid, Trimming Jennifer Aniston’s Bush". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
“The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.”
“Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.”
“We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case.”

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