Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.
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Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.
the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.
I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature _x000D_ and does things that misfit it.
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
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