"Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself"

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Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

Baz Luhrmann

#Moving On Quotes #Time Quotes #Race Quotes

“Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.”
“They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit...”
“It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.”
“War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.”
“Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not”
“One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.”
“How can you think and hit at the same time?”
“The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.”

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