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		Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rob Thomas 
			 
			
				Matchbox Twenty  
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Let's judge a man on what he's done. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salvador Dali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold Pinter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				K. A. Applegate 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Baltasar Gracian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rafael Nadal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brigitte Nielsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Helen Keller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Generally speaking, there's some quality of compulsion that attaches itself to the idea of the list. It's true that lists organise the daily chaos of working life. But the impulse to make lists has to do with something more than either administrative practicalities or the record of a creative process. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Katie Kitamura 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bobby Flay 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rob Thomas 
			 
			
				Matchbox Twenty