"Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back."

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Source : Kevin Dutton (2012). “The Wisdom of Psychopaths”, p.189, Random House

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“The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?”
“He who has never hoped can never despair”
“You have to make the rules, not follow them”
“Obviously, you can't operate a system at 100 percent capacity. You need room for growth. And because there are peak times, you need surge capacity. But it is easier to reduce and manage excess capacity in larger units than smaller, especially when you have a diversity of users who have different peak periods and different growth rates. That's why the utility model is intriguing.”
“I'm a big stupid history nerd.”
“What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.”
“Iâ€™m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public. That trumped any type of professional repercussions that it could have had. And â€“ not by my own volition or choice â€“ Iâ€™ve been playing exclusively straight characters for the first 10 years of my career. Whatever happens from this point on says a lot more about the business and society than it does about me.”
“Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.”

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