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"Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?"
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Personal Development
"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."
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Personal Development
"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."
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Personal Development
"You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change."
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Personal Development
"Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well."
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Personal Development
"Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change."
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Personal Development
"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself."
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Personal Development
"The change we want is within us and shall always be within us, the change we can have is in the steps we can take to realize the change we want. Take a step if you want a change!"
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Personal Development
"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."
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"In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change."
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"I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have."
Empathy
"It's much easier not to know things sometimes."
Awareness
"Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music."
Observation
"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."
Life
"I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love."
Life
"I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember this for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try."
Optimism
"Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker."
Individuality
"My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed. I thought about him going into my mom's room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the one to work in a mill. I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure she has a better life than you do. I just don't know."
Family
"If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone."
Belonging
"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why."
Empathy
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