"I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image."

-- Barbara Corcoran

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“I don't actually own a car.”
“Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities.”
“I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.”
“There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny; the second, by ambition; the last, by tumults. A commonwealth grounded upon any one of these is not of long continuance; but, wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes that government exact.”
“People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.”
“For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'”
“Wander into the center of the circle of wonder.”
“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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