Ruby Wax Quotes

#1. To compensate for this undercurrent of uselessness, we pretend we're all terribly important and that we have something to bring to the world.

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#2. My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

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#3. It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

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#4. I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

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#5. It's the effort of trying to change things from what they are that ultimately exhausts us. Mindfulness

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#6. Now we determine each other's worth by asking, 'What do you do?' If you say 'nothing', people move away from you as if you're a corpse.

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#7. Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

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#8. I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

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#9. Critical thinking is one of our highest achievements besides eating with a fork, so when we emotionally can't get what we want, we have to think our way towards the resolution and this is where we crash and burn.

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#10. For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

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#11. As far as my career or my university or my hometown went, I was on the bus out of town at the right time because I knew to walk away before I was pushed out.

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#12. Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

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#13. My whole career has been an act of revenge.

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#14. Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

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#15. I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

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#16. What once made you safe now drives you insane.

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#17. The ultimate freedom lies in knowing everything, including you, is in a state of flux; you're never still, you're always 'nexting';

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#18. You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

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#19. Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

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#20. Much of what you see out there is manufactured by your brain, painted in like computer-generated graphics in a movie; only a very small part of the inputs to your occipital lobe comes directly from the external world, the rest comes from internal memory stores and other processes.

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#21. Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

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#22. By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

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#23. Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously

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#24. I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

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#25. I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

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#26. I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it's usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.

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#27. You'll notice that pain isn't solid or constant but rather a series of sensations, sometimes hard, sometimes light, and even sometimes gone altogether

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#28. We're always surprised when something ends; everything ends, so why do we never think it's our turn?

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#29. I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

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#30. This triple-decker reflects our evolutionary development from the earliest model (single-celled bacteria) to the latest (George Clooney). Each

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#31. It is in our biology, this reptilian feeling of wanting what the next guy has.

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#32. whenever I achieve a little something and am complimented, shortly thereafter I am swiftly kicked in the ass by karma.

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#33. Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

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#34. Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking.

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#35. We hold those who are on the tightest of schedules in reverence; the busier you are, the higher your status as a human being.

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#36. 1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

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#37. Thoughts are not who you are, they're habitual patterns in the mind, nothing more and as soon as you see them that way, they lose their sting. I think of them as the noise of a radio in another room; I can pay attention, sing along with them if I want and also choose to ignore them.

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#38. This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

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#39. College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

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#40. Jealousy I wish we could express this emotion like kids do. If someone gets something you want, you just hit them over the head and snatch it back. That's why children are so un-neurotic. They are doing what we only dream of. The

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#41. Gandhi said, 'There is more to life than speed'. Unfortunately he didn't tell us what, he just left us hanging while he pranced around in his nappy. To

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#42. I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

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#43. to fill that gap. The habit of judging ourselves is what pounds us into the ground. You're

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#44. You shouldn't run away from your problems, you need to aim straight for the heart of the beast.

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#45. [With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

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#46. Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

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#47. People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

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#48. Sometimes, I get this familiar ache in my heart and a sense of stabbing emptiness around my ribcage. I don't even know what brings it on; it's just familiar like a horrible visitor. What brings me to my knees though, is the even bigger heart-hurt when I recognize this ghastly guest is back again.

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#49. I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

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#50. Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

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#51. I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.

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#52. Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

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#53. memorizing history in school, you should picture yourself in the Battle of Hastings and pretend to lose your legs. You won't forget it then. Parietal

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