Mo Rocca Quotes

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Mo Rocca

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 28, 1969

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

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If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

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I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

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I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really should have had less sugar.

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I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

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Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

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Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

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I hate homemade sweaters.

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Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

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I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

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Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic.

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I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

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Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

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I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

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Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.

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Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.

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I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

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I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

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I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

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My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

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