All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
ALAN ALDAThe good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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