If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That your life is only in this very second.
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Pauline McLynn
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Never be rigid in your thinking, be open.
Give, give, give. The more you give, the happier you are.
Steve Jobs
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don't blame them. Its really tough and it consumes your life.
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Daniel Morrow, Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, for the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, 20 April 1995
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I’d edit out all the awful men I managed to find who confirmed my worst suspicions about my body and my character.
I thought that I would become more mature about certain things, and it didn’t happen.
When I was starting out, in the early 90s, I had to fake an orgasm in a room full of male ad execs at an audition for a chocolate bar ad. It was grim.
I know I should be more evolved, but the person I would like to say sorry to I’m not ready to say sorry to yet.
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