"You have a wonderful opportunity here to not care about something that doesnâ€™t matter to you. Please donâ€™t miss out on it."

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Mallory Ortberg

#Opportunity Quotes #Missing Quotes #Care Quotes

“I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.”
“I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing. It is in my soul to spread love and laughter. Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.”

Source : Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.”
“Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest.”
“Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth.”
“The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”
“We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins”
“We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.”

Source : Dick Couch (2007). “Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior”, p.302, Three Rivers Press

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