#con

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#clear #compete #connection #i #lose

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights. ↗

— David Duke

#activist #call #civil #civil rights #concerned

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#consider #genius #happens #i #myself

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was? ↗

— Patty Duke

#ago #am #books #close #did

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive. ↗

— Patty Duke

#became #control #destructive #highs #i

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army. ↗

— Robert Trout

#based #company #domination #east #economy

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#before #beings #break #conventional #human

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about. ↗

— John Thorn

#alternative #behind #care #continuity #family

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#above #also #analysis #based #collect

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me. ↗

— John Thorn

#concern #course #egotistical #fail #i