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Fall Out Boy used to be my favorite rock band.
I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
As Attorney General of Alabama, I have never hesitated to stand up to the EPA before when it was wrong.
Sometime in my 20s, a wise mentor said something that dramatically changed my outlook and that has stayed with me ever since. She told me to 'wear the mantle with dignity and pride.'
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
Trust your gut.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
