I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.
There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can`t identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.
If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.
Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.
I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.
How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.
I don't understand the feeling of, the way people speak of writing as though it were, like, some kind of djinn to be summoned or like it's the Loch Ness monster or seeing a shooting star. It's a physical act. It is a thing you do with your muscles and your body and your willpower. Watch, I'll show you: get a piece of paper. Get a pencil. Put the pencil on the paper and write the word 'something. '
About 1. 2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8. 3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.
I'm bad at letting go of things.