"We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique."

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Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

Karl Marlantes

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“I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.”
“Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!”

Source : "Pink Floyd at Pompeii". Documentary, Music, 1972.
“Miracles are out there somewhere. You just got to find them.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “Now Is the Hour”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.”
“My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elvis when Rhona Barrett wrote her column about the stars. And so it seeped in.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.”
“There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.”
“If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?”

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