Saint Augustine Quotes
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I love cycling.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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It's hard to play basketball when nothing is inside of you.
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I know people are going to put the main focus on stopping me, so I need to learn how to make my teammates better by passing and creating opportunities for them.
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There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I was bored at college, so I put $10 in a jukebox in this place where people played ping-pong and pool. I put in $10 of 'Jingle Bell Rock,' and this was back in the '90s, so it played 'Jingle Bell Rock,' like, 40 times in a row. It was just really fun to watch because after the fourth time, people were just losing-their-minds angry.
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Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
