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“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”
Source : George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177
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“I want the fact that I existed to mean something.”
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“I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.”
Source : "'Office' Gossip with Jenna Fischer". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. February 23, 2011.
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“An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".”
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“I look at Twitter as brand building.”
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“A major puzzle for which nobody has an answer is this: is there some size at which the planets change their nature from water-rich planets like Neptune, to rocky planets like the Earth? We have found two planets that are the size of the Earth in radius, but they are very close to their host star, so water on the surface would evaporate away.”
Source : "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.
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“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.”