Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele.
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Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
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The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
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...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.
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...he was forty bushels beyond bamboozled.
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-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.
Chuck KlostermanAmericans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there. And—perhaps surprisingly—the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, the voice of Brent Musburger was the pen of Ayn Rand.
Chuck KlostermanRegardless of how liberal Massachusetts may seem, the Celtics were totally GOP. Like Thomas Jefferson, K. C. Jones did not believe in a strong central government: The Celtic players mostly coached themselves. They practiced when they felt like practicing and pulled themselves out of games when they deemed it appropriate, and they wanted to avoid anything taxing. They wanted to avoid taxes. And they excelled by attacking the world in the same way they had been raised to understand it: You pick-and-roll, you throw the bounce pass, you make your free throws. If it worked in the 1950s, it can work now.
Chuck KlostermanEven the invisible are insecure. It's the most universal problem we have. It's so universal, it might not even count as a problem.
Chuck KlostermanIt's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.
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