"Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too."

-- Michele Bachmann

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“The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It's only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur.”
“I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.”
“It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday”

Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.458, Simon and Schuster
“I think any genuine leader today has to learn leadership the hard way-by doing it. That means embracing turbulence and crisis, not avoiding it. It means "flying through the thunderstorm." That's not to say that there are no basic principles to orient you to the challenge. Indeed, I describe some in the book. But there are no simple recipes. Until you have lived it, you don't really know how to do it. That's what I mean by "leadership the hard way."”

Source : "Why Leadership Is Like Flying Through a Thunderstorm: An Interview with Dov Frohman". Interiew with Robert Howard, www.leadershipthehardway.com.
“He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.199, Penguin
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
“She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.”
“I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.”

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