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Quotes by Author
"Be memorable. Be outstanding."
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"It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood."
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"There are only 2 things in this world, you and the rest of you. When this becomes 'one' you are enlightened."
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"Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like."
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"Sex is a team sport, sugar."
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"Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected."
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"Futures can and do change, something as simple as you're supposed to turn right down a street one day... In your bones u know it, and yet for reasons no one understands, you decide to debunk fate and go left. Now instead of meeting your spouse of your dreams and having a house full of kids, you get flattened by an ice-cream truck and spend the next 5 years in physical therapy recovering from the injuries; or worse you die from it. And all cause you exercised free will and turned the opposite way on a whim."
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"The best way to understand life is to understand one's own perspective towards life and rise above it. You have the higher intelligence in you, that allows you to perceive life, beyond an individuals perspective."
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"You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you."
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"People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard."
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"We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action."
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"I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things."
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"There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole."
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"In the end, the sum of my vices is all me."
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"You can't be completely in love with a dragon and expect anything to be normal."
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"No air, no balloons!"
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"At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates."
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"My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?"
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"I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it."
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"Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?"
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"Nobody from your past should be held responsible for your future. The only person accountable for your future is you."
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"Change is threatening to the status quo."
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"The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?"
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"That's right. Endgame. The FAYZ barrier is coming down; at least that's my bet. But there's also a ninety percent chance you and me both end up dead. Ten percent chance we both actually get out alive. In which case we end up sharing a cell somewhere." He laughed. "Kind of unfair, really, what with me being evil and all, and you just so darned virtuous and heroic."
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"Punctuality Plus. When you have scheduled an appointment, or have made a commitment, you have essentially made a promise. Being punctual demonstrates your consideration for others and that you can be depended upon."
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"Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful."
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"I've finally figured out a way to stand strong on my own."
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"Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life."
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"The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Children are not born with memories of those who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell their children of their hereditary hates, perhaps we would do better."
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"You're an asshole.''And you're a bitch,' he says. 'A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head."
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"I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine. He closed his eyes and laughed. "And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women's Liberation Movement's list of things not to say to a modern woman."
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"When every opportunity given to you is used to serve the people, you are on the path of life's purpose to the fullness."
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"You don't have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word."
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"The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch."
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"Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not."
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"While other girls were blurry, displaying cracks or, at the very least, seams - ripped jeans, coffee-stained T-shirts, hair that poufed up in the rain - Sophia always looked sharp, clear, as if the resolution had been turned up on a microscope and angled straight at her, as if the money had formed a kind of shrink wrap that kept her protected from the normal destruction of the everyday."
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"Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has."
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"And I realized, that the reason why good things were not happening to me as often as wanted them to, was because I in fact was a good thing that needed to happen. I needed to happen to me, to other people and to the world. And so I happened."
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"Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?"
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