Hank Green Quotes
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Much of the best art is about balancing between reflecting culture while simultaneously being removed from it and commenting on it.
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I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.
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The infernal day star is shining its radiation down upon us. I can feel it giving me cancer.
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You do the things you have to do in the order you have to do them.
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A friend of mine once told me that, no matter how much you proofread, the first time you open the final version of your book, you will find a typo on the very first page you look at.
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At LeakyCon, a young lady asked me how I dealt with bullying. I wasn’t able to give her a very good answer, which troubles me. Well, there were lots of shouts of “It gets better” and “Stay strong” and “We love you”. But when I put myself back in time to when I was being bullied, none of those things would’ve helped me. Yes, absolutely it does get better. But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here’s how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn’t deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It’s not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it’s about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.
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It's weird to talk about these things as if they are fact since they were in a dream, but the fact that everyone experienced it in precisely the same way made it feel concrete. What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way? The Dream, in that sense, was very, very real.
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The realization that we were actually doing this, and what it could result in, never really struck me. We just did it.
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Their constant attacks meant I never had to doubt my message.”
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The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.
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Don't worry about looking cool. Do you because you are awesome.
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Power only does all its business of empowering when it's perceived as a difference between the power of those nearby and, even more important, the power one previously had.
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You do not exist to please someone else. You exist for your own sake.
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The thing about getting famous is that, often, the only people who are in a position to be honest with you about the realities of celebrity are the people who will make gobs of money if you go all in. They have no incentive to tell you the dirty truth, which Mr. Skampt attempted to tell me then.
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Speaking to humans was so vastly different from tweeting...But this way we all had to sit in the same set of thoughts for over an hour. The connection felt very good.
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I do things that are bad for myself, and my friends, and my health, and my world so I can get more power because I think I need that power to do good things.
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I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.
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My phone felt like it weighed ten pounds in my hands, and I almost fell asleep, but then I realized I’d been neglecting Facebook...
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Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
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I had to make a decision. The kind of choice that you only get to make once and you can't take back, and it makes your life totally different. And even if the path is clear, it's still deeply unsettling.
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People were going to read it and, I hoped, maybe some minds would be changed. Ultimately, almost everyone who read that book was already on my side, and the only thing it served to do was make people like me angrier.
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You’re just trying to find an audience who will love you and I’m not enough.
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The story of humanity is not a story of a few people who had huge, gigantic effects on the world. That's only the story we hear, because it's the easy story to tell. Caring for ourselves and other people is the only thing that has ever mattered to the future of our species.
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You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.