"I do not choose to be a common manâ€¦it is my right to be uncommonâ€”if I canâ€¦I seek opportunityâ€”not securityâ€¦I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeedâ€¦ to refuse to barter incentive for a doleâ€¦ I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopiasâ€¦."

-- Peter O'Toole

#Dream Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes

“Stevie Wonder used to come the ball games and they would have a guy sitting with him. And the guy would be holding on to his arm, telling him what's going on, and he would say, "Hey, the big chocolate guy just put down a thunder dunk. The chocolate guy with another monster dunk." And Stevie Wonder actually gave me the nickname Chocolate Thunder.”

Source : "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.
“There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect,”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.”
“Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.”

Source : "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.
“Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.”
“... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing.”

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