"I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much."

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Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

John Amaechi

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“There is a self-love solution for every challenge.”
“There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.”
“The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."”
“I donâ€™t trust air I canâ€™t see.”
“I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.”
“Itâ€™s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. Itâ€™s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. Itâ€™s like some form of skinâ€™s developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear. "Hide and Seek”
“There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.”
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”

Source : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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