"And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it?So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am."

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Source : Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

Nic Sheff

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“Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?”
“When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance.”
“If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.”

Source : Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford (2008). “Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century”, p.39, Penguin
“I have a life. My kids don't run my house.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.”
“The only love she inspires is the canine kind.”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.163, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.”
“I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.”

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