Hank Green Quotes
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That entire conversation had the feeling of a pleasant stroll inches away from the edge of the Grand Canyon.
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Well, if I weren't so insecure, I would have had neither the opportunity nor the inclination to spend every day of my life getting really good at seeming confident.
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Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
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Most power just looks like an easier-than-average life. It’s so built-in that people mostly don’t realize how powerful they are. Like, the average middle-class person in the US is one of the 3 percent richest people in the world. Thus, they’re probably one of the most powerful people in the world. But, to them, they feel completely average.
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I’d heard all this before, but I also knew that this line of argument worked. If you tell people that they’re being attacked for their beliefs, then suddenly they want to defend their beliefs, even if they didn’t really believe them before. It’s pretty amazing, really.
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I had a very happy childhood; I just wasn’t a very happy child.
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When you’re faced with something you don’t understand, I think the most natural thing but also the least interesting thing you can be is afraid...
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Not that I wasn’t also having fun. Ripping the Defenders’ arguments to shreds and then reading all the comments agreeing passionately with me and electronically patting me on my cybershoulders was thrilling. It’s so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others’ ideas.
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My annoyance became frustration, which became anger, which became hate, and hate is a long-burning fuel.
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I intentionally put myself in situations where people who I care about and who I respect rely on me to do things, which is very motivating.
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But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.
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Just working through what other people had done gave me a feeling that this was all actually worth it. When you get stuck fighting small battles, it makes you small. Hopping from cable news show to cable news show to discuss controversy after controversy had made me small. I thought only about the fight, not why I was fighting.
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John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
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So how do you do it? Not make a baby, balance an equation. I did biology last year.
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Fear is an even better fuel than anger.
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He was one of thousands of people who scraped by filtering reality through their ideology and then yelling really loudly at the internet.
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The comments on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter instantly switched from a small, friendly, supportive community to a selection of the loudest, most over-the-top opinions one could imagine. I was a traitor to my species. I was ultra-fuckable. I was a space alien. I was an ultra-fuckable space alien. And so on.
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I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence.
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The whole time I was in front of the camera, I was thinking of the artist. A fellow creator who had poured her soul into something truly remarkable that might simply be ignored by the whole world. I was trying to get in her head. I was trying to figure out why she had created this thing and, in the same breath, calling out the world for its callous ignorance of beauty and form... I wanted people to wae up and spend a few moments looking at the exceptional amazement of human creation.
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And that was a job at a doomed start-up funded by the endless well of rich people who can only dream the most boring dream a rich person can dream: being even more rich.
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If you're wondering what the difference is, well fine art is like art that exists for its own sake. The Thing that fine art does is itself. Design is art that does something else. It's more like visual engineering.
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Not true my friend! I have spent a fair amount of my life being entertained by cheesecake.
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Sometimes it seems to me that the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty. And I know that's not rationally true. But sometimes it's okay for things not to be rationally true.
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The local news does a story about it and everyone goes “Neat!” and then tomorrow we forget about it in favor of some other ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND REMARKABLE THING.