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- My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as…
- Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with…
- I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life
- A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement…
- As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how…
- When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually…
- If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting…
- All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an…
- A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason…
- The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country…
- If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of…
- I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- 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