"We don't choose what's going to wake us up."

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Dani Shapiro

“If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium”

Source : "Play the Super Bowl -- indoors!" By Mike Downey, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2014.
“I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. Thatâ€™s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1996). “ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית”
“So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.”

Source : Joan W. Blos (2013). “A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.”
“Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.”
“America is supposed to pride itself on freedom of religion, race, and class. It's something that is carried on from ignorance and territorialism. I don't know if it's a transcendental pre-colonial mentality but I don't see too many other races of people trippin' about who is coming in and coming out. I think it's primarily racism disguised as class wars.”
“We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea.”

Source : Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883)

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