"As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make."

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Charles Cumming

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“Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.”
“On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.”
“We're working very closely with the RNC, hand in glove. I talked to Reince Priebus several times a day. Sean Spicer is here today. Katie Walsh is here often, the chief of staff there. We have a great - that is the party, and we have a great relationship with the party.”
“To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.”
“You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ***** in high school.”
“The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.”

Source : "Mark Mothersbaugh Revisits His Literary Roots". Interview with Danielle Wiener-Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.
“Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?”
“I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think also is a civil rights act, maybe on a global perspective, that he cared very, very much about it.”

Source : "How the Civil Rights Act pioneered anti-discrimination laws in America". “PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 10, 2014.

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