"When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact."

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Source : Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Arthur Nersesian

#Age Quotes #Teens Quotes #Predictions Quotes

“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”
“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”
“God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.”
“I never take myself too seriously.”
“The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our societyâ€¦unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.”
“When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.”
“A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case, the drawback is a straightforward consequence of America's approach to firearms. A well-armed citizenry required an even-better-armed constabulary. Widespread gun ownership creates a systematic climate of fear on the part of the police. The result is a quantity of police shootings that, regardless of the facts of any particular case, is just staggeringly high. Young black men, in particular, are paying the price for America's gun culture.”

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