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Dag says he's a lesbian trapped inside a man's body. Figure that out.
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One form of public speaking not usually recognized as such is teaching. I've had a few experiences in educational situations and they've been worse than flies crawling over my face. I don't know if it's me or what, but having to speak to college students is like having to address a crowd of work-shirking entitlement robots whose only passion, aside from making excuses as to why they didn't do their assignments, is lying in wait, ready to po..
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The art world is largely mistrustful of shiny things and, on some level, even fearful of them. But if sophistication is the ability to put a smile on one's existential desperation, then the fear of a glossy sheen is actually the fear that the surface is the content. Fear of sheen is the fear that surface equals depth, that banality equals beauty, that shiny objects are merely transient concretizations of the image economy, and proof that Wa..
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Are you a minimalist? Do you take pride in a reductive life? Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders: they hoard space, and they're just as odd as those people with seven rooms filled with newspapers, dead cats and margarine tubs
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Do you think that being quick to judge, and being quick to pre-emptively please your internal 400-level professor, means you ignore or dismiss things that might actually be interesting? Is it better to be safe than wrong? Do you sometimes see people talking and you can tell it's not even them doing the talking--they're merely channelling their internal professor? Does this activate your own internal professor? Do you call them on it? No, yo..
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I've always been interested in the unintended side effects of technology. For instance, when the car was invented, who would have thought dogs would like sticking their heads out the window to enjoy the scentscape generated by speed and wind?
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The show's host assumed I was going to be an ironic slacker wise-ass and said, "I guess you must think this whole mall is kind of hokey and trashy," and I said, "No such thing." He was surprised. "What do you mean?" "I mean that I feel like I'm in another era that we thought had vanished, but it really hasn't, not yet. I think we might one day look back on photos of today and think to ourselves, 'You know, those people were living in golde..
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I cautiously parked in front of the craft store, went inside and found the glue gun, which, back home, would cost $12.99. There in Arizona it was $1.29, which is to say, it was basically free, and at that price they should have just gone out to the freeway and hurled glue guns at passing cars.
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His lack of story seemed to be of the which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg variety. For example, he thought that if he learned how to hang-glide, then maybe his life's story could begin there--an adventure! Perhaps there would be a mystical moment up in the sky! But wait--in order to have such adventures, Craig would have to be into hang-gliding to begin with. If he rushed out and chose an activity at random, would he now have a meaningf..
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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
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I don't want dainty little moments of insight ...
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Consensus Terrorism: The process that decides in-office attitudes and behavior.
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Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships.
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You still don't know what you do well.
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You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.
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Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.
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Technology does not always equal progress.
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I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
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I'm trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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Language is such a technology.
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We are at the vanguard of adolescent protraction.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
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There's nothing at the center of what we do.
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What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?
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Ask whatever challenges dead and thoughtless beliefs.
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I was Cheryl Anway- that has to count for something.
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I hear that God has a really bad haircut.
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Don't you get an empty feeling in your soul when you have a blank to-do list?
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Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resume.
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To be merely good enough is to never succeed."
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If you can control your emotions, chances are you don't have too many.
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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
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It can be really fun to go down with the ship.
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I wish my parents took good care of their grow-op."
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Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world -- everyone has one and it never gets used.
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Being alive is just a brief technicality. (p. 167)
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Doug's Law: "You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both."
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