"I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person."

-- Laird Hamilton

#Fear Quotes #Scare Quotes #Better Person Quotes

“Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.”
“Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.”
“For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.”
“While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.”
“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us mostâ€”suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or anotherâ€”are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.”
“You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy of the judicial decision-making process to have mudslinging by judges, but the way that we hobble people of enormous integrity from defending themselves is, I think, deeply problematic in states where you have an elected judiciary, or a judge is subject to recall.”

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
“The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.”
“I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.”

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