"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."

-- Sydney Smith

#Running Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told people what they could do with their own bodies?”
“Live constructively and live optimistically.”
“Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.”
“The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.”
“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.”
“I kind of joke with myself that you shouldn't be able to be a creative producer if you weren't a first AD. Because it is such fantastic training for really understanding what everyone does, and how the movie actually gets made. You have to know if you're the first you're kind of the set general, you're at the director's right hand, you know everything about how a director puts a movie together, you know everything about how a movie gets made.”
“I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.”
“My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities”

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