Thank you for being who you are, even when I wasn’t who I should have been.
Quotes
Courtney Love
I gave my daughter a Black Card at 14. her first expenditure was $15,000 at the Paris Ritz with Marianne Faithful on a bottle
Kids in mile run
Kids on average 15% slower on mile run, or 1.5 minutes, than in 1975
percent of arrests by age 23 for otehr than minor traffic offenses
white male – 38% white female – 20% black male – 49% black female – 16% Hispanic male – 44% Hispanic female – 18%
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Jason Gay on NFL playoffs
We live in an age of endless expansion, the upgrade, the jumbo, the supersize. Restraint is for suckers. Less is for quitters. To be
Lincoln on mercy
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Ben Cohen and Rachel Bachman, Behind College Football’s Most Amazing Play
It was the result of strategic creativity, calculated risk and hidden talent, with timely luck and unlikely characters intermingling at just the right moment.
Tom Ward, Chesapeake Energy co-founder
After retiring abruptly from Chesapeake: The only thing worse than getting 300 emails a day is getting.
Kirill Sheynkman
The difference between science and engineering is that in that in engineering there’s an extra variable added to every equation, a dollar sign.