Steve Gleason (Stephen Michael Gleason) Quotes
I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
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There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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It's not the experience that happens to you: it's what you do with the experience that happens to you.
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Rational, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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These horrific murders are only a symptom of a deeper malaise. Life is hell for the living too. Whole populations - millions of Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims and Christians - are being forced to live in terror, unsure of when and from where the assault will come.
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I'm not a fan of plastic surgery. Oh, and I've never had a wax in my life. Waxing makes no sense to me because you have to grow it out to wax it.
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If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.
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Some of our songs are empowering, but I feel like more so than our music, it's who we are. We're four women who are completely different ethnicities, completely different body types, completely different walks of life and opinions.
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In life, anything can happen, and I do not close the door to anything.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'
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Great stories are still just great yarns. News remains the best human drama ever. Technology is not changing the story; it is just changing the way in which we deliver it.
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I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.
