Tom Allen
British comedian
Never save anything for best.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Choose your friends wisely.
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Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and writer
And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense of peace within oneself. I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one’s life as well, when one can feel that one’s work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.
Lil Nas X
American rapper
That I can’t control it.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
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Not being truthful to everyone from an earlier age.
Being two-faced.
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