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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

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• I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Night
  • Born
  • Owl

• Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Help
  • Mission
  • Founders

• After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Running

• I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.

  

  Rain
  • Food
  • Hamburgers
  • Fries

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Think
  • You

• Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Call
  • Phone

• Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Fun
  • Relationships
  • Mentor

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• Our songs all carry the same way.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Way
  • Same
  • Carry

• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World
  • End
  • Nothing

• I love Chanel.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Chanel

• I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Man
  • Army
  • Knew

• There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Past
  • Beginning

• 'Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Family
  • Help
  • Environment

• Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Power
  • Golf

• Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.

  

  Bob Taft
  • People

• I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • School
  • Career

• I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Study

• I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Writing
  • Kids

• Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that I want my children to have: that if they see a need, whether it's around the corner or thousands of miles of away, they should feel motivated to do whatever they can to help.

  

  Kate Snow
  • Help
  • Compassion
  • Teaching

• Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

  

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