"If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you."

-- Kinky Friedman

“Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.”

Source : "Learning How to Exert Self-Control" by Pamela Druckerman, www.nytimes.com. September 12, 2014.
“Hidan: That was pitiful! What happened there, buddy? Kakuzu: You should talk. I wasn't the one who fell for a shadow clone! Hidan: Ahaha, right. You saw that?”
“I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.”
“May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.”
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
“If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.”

Source : "Dan Fox and the Virtues of Pretension". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2016.
“How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.”
“Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.”

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