"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town"

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Anne Lamott

#Recovery Quotes #Monkeys Quotes #Circus Quotes

“Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.”
“Definitely, as I get older and my taste buds change, I want to do different things. I'm not ready for directing yet, you know, maybe when I get my big boy voice; I don't have that yet, but right now definitely producing for sure.”

Source : "Michael B. Jordan Talks FRUITVALE, Spending Time with the Real Oscar Grant, and ARE WE OFFICIALLY DATING? at Sundance 2013". Interview with Samantha Cheirif, collider.com. January 21, 2013.
“Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.”

Source : "Getting to Know: Chad Michael Murray". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 5, 2007.
“Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.”

Source : "Bombshell". Book by Lynda Curny, 2004.
“It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.”
“Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.”
“All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.”
“The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her.”

Source : Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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