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Reality is greater than our dreams.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.
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I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.
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We're all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one family, city, state, country, and planet. Who can ever understand exactly why or how it comes down as it does? The bottom line is, here we are. Whatever, wherever we are, this is what we've got. It's up to us whether we do it as easy time or hard time.
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As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.
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The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.
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The one thing that's missing from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and I don't imagine we'll see it any time soon, is that there's no memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died because of how the memory of 9/11 was used. Memory is a very interesting thing. We very selectively curate our story and then stop when it begins to tell other people's stories and forces us to accept some kind of culpability. One reason I write is that there's not enough Muslims writing, Pakistanis writing, not enough people of faith writing about the complexities of our experiences.
