Susan Juby quotes

Susan Juby quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.”
-- Susan Juby

Source : Susan Juby (2005). “Miss Smithers”, HarperTrophyCanada

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“In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.”
-- Susan Juby

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“Maybe careers arenâ€™t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.”
-- Susan Juby

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“If you are alive and conscious, you are probably codependent.”
-- Susan Juby

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“It’s not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.”
-- Susan Juby

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“Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.”
-- Susan Juby

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“You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.”
“I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.”
“My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.”
“The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.”

Source : "Adam Savage on becoming a maker". www.wired.com. July 4, 2012.
“But I wonder if there is a place I fit in?”
“When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.”

Source : Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) (2009). “Calder: Sculptor of Air”, 24 Ore Cultura
“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
“A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”
“When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.”
“You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.”

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