"My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise."
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
"But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea."
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"I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them."
"Promising vs. Promises A promising life comes from a childhood without broken promises."
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me."
"Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled."
"I’d rather sell one thing for one million dollars, than sell one million things for one dollar each. I feel the same about my love and women."
"I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake."
"The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream."
"Your mother won a special reward,"she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
"You don’t have to be happy to smile."
"And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you."
"The dead are way more organized than the living."
"There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream."
"I had a dream about you last night.. You were in the amazon rain forest yipping like a dog."
"It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died."
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