I don’t have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
ADAM CAROLLATo take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
ROLAND BARTHES -
The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.
ALAN CHADWICK -
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.
MARCO RUBIO -
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL -
Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN -
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
THOMAS MORE -
Food is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
The more successful you become, the more known you become, everything you say is minutely scrutinised a lot.
KRITI SANON -
Don’t let words guide you, let actions guide you.
NICOLE BROWN -
Always read your contract. Know what you’re getting yourself into. Know your worth.
LIL DURK -
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.
SYLVIA EARLE -
If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
KURT VONNEGUT -
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
Bitcoin is everywhere and nowhere. That is the strength of decentralized money.
CAMERON WINKLEVOSS