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“I'm playing 'chicken' with a kid called 'Robin.' I don't know why he's showing off. I don't know why I'm going along with it. I don't even know where we're going. It could be a robbery. Or prison break. A gang war. Or free donuts at Lenny's. He sees that Bat-signal in the sky and takes off. Like a bird out of Hell. And he just expects me to follow him. And I do.”
― Batgirl: Year One
― Batgirl: Year One
“The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem. It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit. It's typical
of men to annex a global trend and turn it into a male device to reject women to make themselves
feel clever and us feel stupid. It's nothing but fuckwittage.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
of men to annex a global trend and turn it into a male device to reject women to make themselves
feel clever and us feel stupid. It's nothing but fuckwittage.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
“We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“Leadership begins and ends with relationships”
― Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact
― Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact
“Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you," said the Skin Horse. " When you are real you don't mind being hurt.
It doesn't happen all at once. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen to people who break easily, or who have sharp corners. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out, and you get loose and very shabby. But these don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
Once you are Real, you can't unreal. It last forever”
― The Velveteen Rabbit
It doesn't happen all at once. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen to people who break easily, or who have sharp corners. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out, and you get loose and very shabby. But these don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
Once you are Real, you can't unreal. It last forever”
― The Velveteen Rabbit
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