Blake Mycoskie Quotes
If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.
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I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.
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Football is my first passion. I've played it since I was a little kid.
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Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
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Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.
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Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.
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If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.
