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“I had turned my anxiety into my profession.”
Source : François Jacob (1995). “The Statue Within: An Autobiography”, p.9, CSHL Press
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“Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.”
Source : Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage
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“I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.”
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“A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.”
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“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
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“There's not a lot of tolerance for people like me... To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.”
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“You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.”
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“There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.”