"I love the fight. I don't - it's not a negative, it's a positive, and I love the challenge. There's that little part of me that I love proving someone wrong in that way when they have an image of me or something, or they think they have me figured out or they think I'm a certain way."

-- Tavis Smiley

#Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.”

Source : William Dampier (1703). “A New Voyage Round the World”, p.147
“Good composers don't borrow, they steal”
“Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.”
“Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.”
“An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.”
“Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.”
“Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.”
“In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left”

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