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“In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest â€” my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.”

Source : Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin
“I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'”
“To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.”

Source : L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.174, Bridge Publications, Inc.
“Not being able to rebound better was a thorn in our foot.”
“There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.”
“Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way.”
“[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

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