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A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
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Star Trek characters never go shopping.
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
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If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.
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The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
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Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
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As he ages and sees more of the world, he’s realizing that bad news is a part of life, and that when you have to give it, just say it and get it over with.
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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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Clique Maintenance: The need of one generation to see the generation following it as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego: Kids today do nothing. They’re so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.
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It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.
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I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
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I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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'I have this theory about smart people. If you’re smart, you’re either the only person in your family who’s smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between.'I considered this. 'I think I come from the everybody’s smart category. But they don’t apply their smarts to… larger picture pursuits. That includes me.'
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