History doesn’t choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?
BRAD MELTZERAs I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
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In this life, y’ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They’re challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there’re divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
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Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
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Overwatch doesn’t just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.
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We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we’re their government. And people trust their government.
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A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren’t who we think they are.
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I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
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As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you’re in, when you want something – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it. When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
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Life is filled with trapdoors.
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As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
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Haven’t you ever played Uno?… Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
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I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
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Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
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But to me, the most important page in my daughter’s book is the last one – because it’s blank. It says, “Your Hero’s Photo Here,” and, “Your Hero’s Story Here.”
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Today, I don’t believe in destiny. But I do believe in history…There’s nothing more powerful than history.
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So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that’s nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
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