"If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight."

-- Ayelet Waldman

#Inspire Quotes #Doe Quotes #Popcorn Quotes

“Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.”
“Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.”
“It's more about when you come back from being out somewhere; in a minicab or a night bus, or with someone, or walking home across London late at night, dreamlike, and you've still got the music kind of echoing in you, in your bloodstream, but with real life trying to get in the way. I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It's like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark. It's pretty simple.”

Source : "'Only five people know I make tunes'". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.
“Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.”
“The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.”
“When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained destiny out there among the stars, all that means is that they have a single story wedged into their imagination so tightly that mere reality can't shake it loose.”
“I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?”
“The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!”

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