Kevin Rowland
British singer
Shakespeare said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – I think that’s true.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What does love feel like?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Things, situations, people evolve constantly. Nothing is static.
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Jason Manford
English comedian and singer
That there are more important things than being right.
Christopher Hitchens
Essayist, critic and journalist
Before I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer a year and a half ago, I rather jauntily told the readers of my memoirs that when faced with extinction I wanted to be fully conscious and awake, in order to “do” death in the active and not the passive sense. And I do, still, try to nurture that little flame of curiosity and defiance: willing to play out the string to the end and wishing to be spared nothing that properly belongs to a life span. However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings. And there’s one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I once used to: In particular, I have slightly stopped issuing the announcement that “Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”
Never ever think that things are going to turn out all right.
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