Scott Stossel Quotes

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

Scott Stossel

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SchoolMeHigh SchoolAnxietyLose

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PerfectionManEnoughAdmitInsight

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

Andrew Weil

HealthHealingPersonalEconomyOur

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Melissa Bean

FightIdentityColleaguesFinancial

I love the sea, and I never mind when it's rough.

Robert Stigwood

LoveSeaMindNeverRoughI Love

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

Stephen Graham Jones

RomanticDarkBecomeVampireScary

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

Steven Pinker

PeopleThinkYouPrivilegeMore

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Tom Hiddleston

LoveHistoryPeopleEnoughYouLook

Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.

Rodney Atkins

PeopleHairNameBootsPhoneWrite

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Jonathan Swift

WantBeliefOvercomeCannotDefect

I'm a fanboy and a geek.

Brian Tee

Geek

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

William S. Burroughs

BusinessMindWorldTroubleMore

I have a sort of Catholic-slash-Calvinist view of human nature, but every day I meet somebody who is doing cool things. So people get you out of your solitude and do things that exceed your expectations every day.

Tim Kaine

NatureDayPeopleCoolSolitudeYou

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