"I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world."

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Source : Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2010.

Max Baucus

#Thinking Quotes #Guy Quotes #World Quotes

“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
“Are you trying to tell me that you've never been kissed?" I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. He looked so dubious, and his tone had borderd on insulting. "Yeah. So?" "So, I'm shocked, that's all. You're...you." In-sul-ting."Me?" I asked stiffly. "Yeah. Hot," he said. Wait. Me? HOT? He laughed down at me."No one's told you that, either, have they?" I could only shake me head. "You've clearly been hanging around idiots.”
“Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.”
“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.”
“The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.”
“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”
“In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak”
“How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it...”

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