"What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?"

-- Alain de Botton

#Thinking Quotes

“When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.”
“The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.”
“I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.”

Source : Interview with Guitar.com, www.novoselic.com.
“I'm a long way from Ike Turner.”
“And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.”
“Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic." Realistic people do not accomplish extraordinary things because the odds against success stymie them. The best performers ignore the odds. I will show you that instead of limiting themselves to what's probable, the best will pursue the heart-pounding, exciting, really big, difference-making dreams-so long as catching them might be possible.”
“Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.”
“Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.”

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