"I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience piling up the way it does as you turn the pages of a novel. I would be lying if I said I was a different person now. I am the same person. I would do it all again."

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Source : Emily Gould (2010). “And the Heart Says Whatever”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Emily Gould

#Lying Quotes #Hurtful Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.”
“I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.”
“At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.”
“When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.”

Source : "The Rise Of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's Son-In-Law". "Morning Edition" with David Folkenflik, bpr.org. November 18, 2016.
“The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.”

Source : Elliot Aronson (2011). “CourseSmart International E-Book for The Social Animal”, p.257, Palgrave Macmillan
“You are mine,â€ he rasped. â€œOnly ever mine. I accept all that you are, and we can be together.”
“Every game I played was a bonus.”
“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.”

Source : Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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