Simon Travaglia Quotes

#1. The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

Neale Donald Walsch

#2. There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

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#3. It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

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#4. Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

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#5. Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.

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#6. Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

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#7. Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

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#8. Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess.

Maile Meloy

#9. Felix looked as if he had been given some kind of caped weasel - part gift, part insult, part utter confusion. Thank you, I think.

Gail Carriger

#10. My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

David Prowse

#11. It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

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#12. It's not that some people have willpower and some don't ... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

#13. Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.

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#14. that every man must have a code, an ethos, a set of convictions that dictate his purpose and behavior in life. This code "forms the box" in which he lives and moves and makes decisions.

Daniel A. Biddle

#15. It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

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#16. I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

Thomas Lux

#17. There are mornings on this road trip as the early light gathers itself, something quite unexpected happens. My camera pushes me aside and takes on a life of it's own, conspiring with nature and becoming a veritable paintbrush. I'd like to take credit for the end result, but I know it would be a lie.

Stephen Braxton Thompson

#18. The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

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#19. I'm being haunted," she blurted out.
"My dear," he cooed. "Turn yourself into a tourist attraction and charge admission.

Peter Straub

#20. Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

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#21. It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Janet Frame

#22. Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

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#23. The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Red Smith

#24. Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

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#25. I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: 'Anthem,' by Ayn Rand; '1984,' by George Orwell; or 'Brave New World,' by Aldous Huxley.

Sara Shepard

#26. The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

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#27. What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

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