"How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?"

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Source : "What's so funny about mental illness?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

Ruby Wax

#Sick Quotes #Brain Quotes #Body Quotes

“I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.”
“Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.”
“Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!”
“History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.”

Source : "Mahathir Criticises Bush, Blair". www.thestar.com.my. February 05, 2007.
“My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.”
“Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .”
“The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.”
“The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.”

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