"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."

-- Anne Lamott

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“I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.”

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“The truest you can be is taking off those clothes.”
“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.”
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”

Source : "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". Book by Dee Brown. Chapter 12, 1970.
“Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs by sheer will to extend his life. "Fly...Rider, with great speed. Don't read m-message. Then they can't tor-torture...it from you. If captured, shred it and toss it to the winds." Then, because his voice had grown so faint, she had to lean very close to hear his final words. "Beware the shadow man." A cold tremor ran through Karigan's body. "I'll do my best," she told him.”

Source : Kristen Britain (2008). “Green Rider: Book One of Green Rider”, p.20, Penguin
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”
“The most important thingÂ in the Olympic GamesÂ is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”

Source : "The Olympian". Book by Peter L. Dixon, 1984.
“Sex appeal is not on purpose.”

Source : "Heather Locklear: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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