Shane Kuhn Quotes

#1. Butt fucking the American dream so you can buy cheap T-shirts at Old Navy. Isn't life beautiful?

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#2. Monsters like us can learn to be human beings from watching movies

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#3. I'm beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.

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#4. So when I'm up here it feeds, for lack of a better word, nostalgia about my youth. Some people get that way when they see a baseball field or smell trout on the grill. I get that feeling from vertigo and the Freudian fantasy of falling to my certain death on the pavement.

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#5. Interns are invisible. You can tell an executive your name a hundred times and that executive will never remember it because they have no respect for someone at the bottom of the barrel, working for free.

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#6. We are not antiheroes with a silver lining. And we are sure as hell not relatable or sympathetic.

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#7. The job is the job, and I have no choice but to get it done. Bitching about it will only distract me, and let's be honest, has bitching about anything ever helped anybody?

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#8. So, like the knights of old, I suited up in my trusty intern armor - brownish-green suit, sensible cap-toed oxfords, white button-down, and omnipresent LensCrafters glasses. If I wasn't able to shoot her, I could probably bore her to death.

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#9. I felt the blood drain out of my face. The whole thing was a setup-the FBI mole, the mystery client ... I knew the what but the why was what I was trying to Scooby-Doo as we hurtled to an uncertain fate in the back of Zhen's limo. It must have been a play for HR, revenge for our hostile takeover.

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#10. Fight or flight is bullshit. Flight is the default. Fight only happens when flight is not an option. Because fight requires a sharp committed mind that can think ten steps ahead.

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#11. I'm Marcus Hunter. Who are you?

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#12. I am wet shoes.
I am cold, damp breath.
I am sweating hands.
I am gravity crushing the grass beneath my boots.
I am Kevlar and metal and lead.
I am laser sighting.
I am death.
And I am coming.

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#13. They're more interested in their fucking iPhones than doing their jobs. I can see the glow of their phone screens on their faces as they check e-mail, update their Facebook slaveware, dream of living, breathing, and fucking through the anonymity of text and memes.

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#14. That's what I love about you. You're a freak. Like me.

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#15. Sometimes you can get a shark to eat itself if you fill the water with enough blood.

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#16. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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#17. Our minds are not interested in truth. They are our private twenty-four hour news cycle putting a constant spin on reality. It's like The Matrix. Everyone is getting plugged into the Bullshit Express.

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#18. Sometimes doing what's necessary seems crazy but it's the highest form of sanity.

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#19. People love to talk about themselves, especially white people.

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#20. Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It's enough to drive you bat shit crazy.

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#21. We are in our own dark Eden where the snake is not selling the Tree of Knowledge. He is selling love, and if you take a bite of that apple, you will go the way of Abel when this is clearly the land of Cain.

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#22. When you're on your own as a youngster, you're fresh meat and there's a line of cannibals just waiting to fire up the grill.

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#23. Clarity equals victory. Look at successful people. Do you really think they have seven effective habits? Fuck no. Who's got time for that? They have one effective habit: DOING. When you are a 'doer' you lap the rest of the rats in the race.

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#24. Sometimes pain can bring about clarity and remind us we're still breathing.

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#25. The more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone's lifetime.

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