"I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed."

-- A. J. Jacobs

#Dna Quotes #History Quotes #Focus Quotes

“The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.”
“You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.”
“I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.”
“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.”
“Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'”
“What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.”
“The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.”
“Canada is free and freedom is its nationality,”

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