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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

• My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
  • Love
  • America

• 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 am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical trials, they control the data. They analyze the data. In some cases, they even write the article. And that leads to at least the perception, if not the reality, that there's a conflict of interest.

  

  Catherine D. DeAngelis
  • Writing
  • Reality
  • Interest

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
  • Bad
  • Beginning

• I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Music
  • Parents

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

  

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