Ryan North Quotes
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
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There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
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Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
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Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?
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If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand something, it’s not defeat. It’s not even something he has to accept. It’s merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.
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To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.
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But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.
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A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.
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The shot from Laws was precise but wide.
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Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.
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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?
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No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun.
