Roaches Quotes

• I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Responsibility, Light, Objectivity

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.213, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

  Jay London

  Military, Training, Cockroaches

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• Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

  Alexandra Roach

  Corners

  "Alexandra Roach" by Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.

  John Leguizamo

  Latin, Republican, Anti Conservative

  "Slim-Fast Trims Whoopi From Ads" by Joel Roberts, www.cbsnews.com. July 15, 2004.

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• Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

  Wendell Berry

  Law, Justice, Competition

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.212, Counterpoint

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• We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz.

  Macklemore

  Dream, Buzz, Sells

  Song: Otherside

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• Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

  Herb Caen

  Stay Strong, Anger, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, People, House

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• Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

  Mary Roach

  Bars, Spirit, Hades

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books

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• I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

  Alan Moore

  Children, Cockroaches, Heroin

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• I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

  Wesley Snipes

  Stress, Light, Doors

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• ... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

  Cory Doctorow

  Book, Drm, Checks

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “Context”, p.102, Tachyon Publications

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• I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Istanbul, Males, Half

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• Papa Roach are not just going to take tours just to take tours.

  Tony Palermo

  Papa, Papa Roach

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• After doing those Mötley Crüe and Nickelback shows where the demographic is a little older, Papa Roach got a lot of fans from those tours. And now we have parents saying "Yeah my kids are into you guys!" It's cool.

  Tony Palermo

  Kids, Guy, Parent

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• We[ Papa Roach ]'re always trying to get bigger and bigger. It's weird because I wasn't around when they sold millions of records. Now it's just always about "OK what new people can we get to." We're trying to package up with younger bands like Bring Me the Horizon or Of Mice and Men. Those bands always get talked about, because their demographic is so young. But, actually we are seeing a lot of younger people at shows which is awesome.

  Tony Palermo

  Men, Always Trying, People

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• In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New York, took under his wing. He taught me how to use typography more visually, to push against design norms and not to rely on preconceived notions of what something should look like. I learned that nuance is everything and to agonize over the details. I have Jerry to thank for driving plenty of people crazy over the years!

  John Butler

  Art, New York, Crazy

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• Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the huge energy you guys bring, the songs are very grand and anthemic. "Kick in the Teeth" being an example as a song that's made for huge crowd sing-alongs, not tiny little club shows.

  Tony Palermo

  Song, Guy, Energy

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• We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.

  Tony Palermo

  Papa, Littles, Arena

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• For one, [ Freddie Roach] is wasting his time because I don't even read those reports. So that's the first thing. Secondly, I hear about them from other people around me and it doesn't make a difference to me. It seems kind of odd for him to be coming out so much and saying so many different things and every day it's a new thing. But like I said, I don't read them and I don't care about them and it doesn't make a difference come fight night.

  Chris Algieri

  Fighting, Night, Differences

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I am not going to change just to promote a fight. My stance is to not go back-and-forth and I am not fighting Freddie [Roach]. That's not the man I have to box with so I am not going to go back-and-forth firing darts at each other.

  Chris Algieri

  Fighting, Men, He Man

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

  Werner Herzog

  Pbs, Vapid, Reptiles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."

  Werner Herzog

  Vapid, Reptiles, Care

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The only way people can repay the debt is by cutting their living standards very drastically. It means agreeing to shift their pension plans from defined benefit plans - when you know what you're going to get - into just "defined contribution plans," where you put money in, like into a roach motel, and you don't know what's coming out.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Cutting, Pension Plans

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was curious to see what would happen to him after Bad Monkey. And I liked the idea of him still trying to get his detective job back while he's stuck on roach patrol.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jobs, Attitude, Character

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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