"When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?"

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Gloria Vanderbilt

“Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.”
“A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.”

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“Bill Clinton was doing Ku Klux Klan grand kleagel jokes at Byrd's funeral, saying, Oh, Robert C. Byrd, he used the - he was the grand kleagel. He just did what he had to do.”
“I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.”
“I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.”
“Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.”
“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”
“No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.”

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