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- Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself.…
- Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it…
- Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a…
- Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
- When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
- People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
- The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the…
- We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong