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Nate Ruess

"It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself."

Source : "Fun.'s Nate Ruess". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

Nate Ruess

#Thinking Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Pessimistic Quotes

“Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.18, Penguin
“. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?â€ I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? â€œThere is time,â€ she said, â€œbut the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.”
“I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.”
“To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.”
“The way to do well is to do well.”
“My wife told me I'm not as disgusting to her as I used to be.”
“Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.”
“Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1847). “The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second”, p.153

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