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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes-including you.

Anne Lamott

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Lamott, Anne. Facebook post. 8 Apr. 2015.

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I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it’s not where you’re going to find your sense of completion.

Jim Carrey

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Carrey, Jim. Commencement speech. Commencement ceremony. 30 May 2014, Maharishi International University of Management, Fairfield, IA, USA.

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He's so stupid, he doesn't realize how miserable he should be. I envy that.

BoJack Horseman

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"BoJack Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One." BoJack Horseman, written by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, directed by Joel Moser, season 1, episode 1, ShadowMachine and Tornante Company, 2014.

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The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They are suing me because for the first time in their lives, things didn't work out the way they were supposed to for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

The Social Network

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The Social Network. Directed by David Fincher. Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media/Scott Rudin Productions/Michael De Luca Productions/Trigger Street Productions, 2010.

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When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Have regrets. They are fuel.

Geoff Dyer

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Read this article at The Guardian

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Dyer, Geoff. Quoted in "Ten Rules for Writing Fiction: Part 1." Guardian, 19 Feb. 2010, www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one.

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For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: pay attention to what you pay attention to.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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Rosenthal, Amy Krouse [@missamykr]. "for anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. that's pretty much all the info u need." Twitter, 15 Mar. 2013, 7:02 a.m., twitter.com/missamykr/status/312564535242395648

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In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Pico Iyer

The Art of Stillness

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Iyer, Pico. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere. Simon & Schuster/TED Books, 2014, ch. 6. Originally a TED Talk, 2013.

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I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

Oliver Sacks

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Sacks, Oliver. "My Own Life." The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2015.

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Love is awful. It's awful. It's painful. It's frightening. Makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life, makes you selfish, makes you creepy, makes you obbsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do.

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Fleabag

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"Episode #2.6." Fleabag, written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, directed by Harry Bradbeer, season 2, episode 6, Amazon Studios and British Broadcasting Corporation, 2019.

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She did not need much,
wanted very little.
A kind word, sincerity,
fresh air, clean water,
a garden, kisses,
books to read,
sheltering arms, a cozy bed,
and to love and be loved in return.

Starra Neely Blade

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She Did Not Need Much

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Blade, Starra Neely. Posting of her poem called She Did Not Need Much. Facebook, 4 Oct. 2019. https://www.facebook.com/StarraNeelyBlade/. Accessed 12 Jan. 2023.

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When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter, now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.

Russell Brand

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Revolution

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Brand, Russell. RƎVO⅃UTION. Ballantine Books/Century, 2014, ch. 10.

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We go to bars so we can behave like children, toddlers, really. You ever go to a bar at 2am? You might as well be picking up a kid at nursery school.

Jim Gaffigan

Obsessed

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Gaffigian, Jim. "Obsessed." Comedy Central Special. 27 Apr. 2014, Comedy Central. Originally presented on 18 Jan. 2014 at the Wilbur Theater, Boston, MA, USA.

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I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy.

Moneyball

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Moneyball. Directed by Bennett Miller, Columbia Pictures/Scott Ruding Productions/Michael De Luca Productions/Rachael Horovitz Productions/Plan B Entertainment, 2011.

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The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen, or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire. And then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected, dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

Jon Stewart

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Stewart, Jon. Speech at the National Mall. Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. 30 Oct. 2010, National Mall, Washington, DC, USA.

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It's amazing how our attitude on alcohol changes, right? Cause even as a teenager you know it's wrong. You're like, "You know, I don't like the taste of it, but I want to look cool." And then in your twenties you're like, "You know what, this kinda gives me confidence to talk to the opposite sex." Then in your forties you're like, "You know what, this is the only thing I like about being alive."

Jim Gaffigan

Obsessed

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Gaffigian, Jim. "Obsessed." Comedy Central Special. 27 Apr. 2014, Comedy Central. Originally presented on 18 Jan. 2014 at the Wilbur Theater, Boston, MA, USA.

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There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Oliver Sacks

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Sacks, Oliver. "My Own Life." The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2015.

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Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

Alain de Botton

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De Botton, Alain. A Week at the Airport. Profile Books, 2009.

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Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

Steve Jobs

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Jobs, Steve. Last words. 5 Oct. 2011, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

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