"Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would."

-- Julie Powell

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“I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.”
“Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life.”
“While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.”
“Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.”

Source : "Jimmy Iovine: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2013.
“You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.”
“There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
“The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.”
“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”

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