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To hell with facts! We need stories!


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Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.



Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.



Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.



If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.



You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.



You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.



All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.



He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum



The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.



You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.





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You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.



If you feel so emptySo used up, so let downIf you feel so angrySo ripped off so stepped onYou're not the only oneRefusing to back downYou're not the only oneSo get up

If you feel so emptySo used up, so let downIf you feel so angrySo ripped off so stepped onYou're not the only oneRefusing to back downYou're not the only oneSo get up



The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.



Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.



[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.



I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.



Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.



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What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare



I'm disappointed. I played my heart out and it didn't work.

I'm disappointed. I played my heart out and it didn't work.



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I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven.




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