"You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script."

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Source : John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.9, New Society Publishers

John Taylor Gatto

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“It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.”
“People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.”
“There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.”
“I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.”
“It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.”
“I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failureâ€”and their ability to overcome it.”

Source : Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.24, Penguin
“[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.”
“There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original,”

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