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Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

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• I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

  

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• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

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• I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

  

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• I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

  

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• People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

  

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• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

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• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  

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• The Melvins are grunge.

  

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• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

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• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

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• I don't know anything about music.

  

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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  

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• We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

  

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• My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

  

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• Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

  

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• This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

  

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• I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

  

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• In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

  

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• Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

  

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• Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
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• Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

  

  Epictetus
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