"Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure."

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Tom Hodgkinson

#Boredom Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Situation Quotes

“I do speak to kids a lot. I am very clear with them that not all of them should aspire to be me and not all of them should be aspire to be LeBron.”
“You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.”
“The average human has one breast and one testicle.”
“The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.”
“Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.”
“Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.”
“My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.”
“The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.”

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