"People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time."

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David Brooks

#Reality Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.”
“I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.”
“Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.”

Source : Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin
“My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'”
“We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.”
“Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.”
“I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see it in you.”
“I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but thatâ€™s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'”

Source : "Meghan Trainor Bares All: Her Unexpected Big Break, Being Bullied and Embracing Her Body" by Sophie Schillaci, www.etonline.com. September 2, 2014.

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