Wisdom
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- In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier - but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes’…I was an idiot...It's a decade of tears.
- Gandhi…failed at the Bar. Not just once, but twice. And had he succeeded as a lawyer in Bombay, you and I would not be having this conversation.
- Dreams are lovely, but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.
- The only reason [being called a thug] bothers me is because it seems like it's the accepted way of calling somebody the N-word nowadays.
- If you can't afford to take care of your veterans, then don't go to war.
- I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.
- When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No. Life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.
- We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
- You know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.
- This country has a marvelous way of including more and more people in every generation.
- I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.
- All year, this team has done a great job of thinking about today, and not worrying about yesterday, or tomorrow, or next year. It brought us to this point. And as soon as spring training starts, we’re going to turn the page on this one and try to win the World Series again.