"People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer."

-- Neil Gaiman

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“I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.”
“When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.”
“Every day FM radio ran out of hours, not music.”
“This is the thing, I'm not fazed by what people say about me because I know who I am and what I've been through.”

Source : "Love & Hip Hop’s Erica Mena Goes ‘Underneath It All’". Interview with Thomas C. Burrell, www.parlemag.com. April 30, 2013.
“The Israelis have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.”
“Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.”
“I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?”
“Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.”

Source : Richard Carlson (2002). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, Hachette UK

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