"Our history is an aggregate of last moments"

-- Thomas Pynchon

#Lasts Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I'm a person who goes by what I feel like and almost no one can tell me what to do. It's always self-motivation.”
“We donâ€™t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where itâ€™s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who donâ€™t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.”
“We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.”
“One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.”

Source : Dave Draper (2002). “Your Body Revival: Weight Loss Straight Talk”, p.12, On Target Publications
“I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)”
“But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.”
“Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.”
“Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.”

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