He’d always be Your Father, but somehow was no longer your dad.
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“When 2014 Boston Marathon champion Meb Keflezighi was asked how long he thought he could continue competing at an elite level, now being over the age of 40, he responded: “If no one ever told you when you were born, how would you know how old you are?”
― Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story
― Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story
“Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state
that makes people want to flee the Earth?"
- Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones,
"The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005”
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that makes people want to flee the Earth?"
- Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones,
"The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005”
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“Because the secret of everyone who comes to London—who comes to any big city—is that they came here because they did not feel normal, back at home.”
― How to Be Famous
― How to Be Famous
“Who gets to be an American? What does an American look like?”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“All five of Young Wu’s housemates are called names. They compare names. Chink, of course, and also slope, jap, nip, gook. Towelhead. Some names are specific, others are quite universal in their function and application. But the one that Wu can never quite get over was the original epithet: Chinaman, the one that seems, in a way, the most harmless, being that in a sense it is literally just a descriptor. China. Man. And yet in that simplicity, in the breadth of its use, it encapsulates so much. This is what you are. Always will be, to me, to us. Not one of us. This other thing.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
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