grim

"It's tough knowing this much."
- Sean Penn on non-smiling

"courage gives you options"

consult

Psychiatrist

What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets.

Patient

Obviously doctor you've never been a 13 year old girl.

Sofia Coppola, Virgin Suicides 

eastward facing

because "The sun never sets in the east."

warmth and bravado

"It's important to separate one's ability from disability."
- Itzhak Perlman

compliance officer

"You must be willing to have any contemplated act appear on the front page to be read by spouses, children, friends."
- Warren Buffett

Mafia Manifesto

"Never show weakness."

first mover disadvantage

"The bird that flies at the front of the flock is the one they shoot."
- Chinese aphorism 

on being down and out

"Having a powered donut and a cup of rum can feel like paradise."
- Billy Bob Thornton

spring time for Hitler

"There's only one way to get even - bring 'em down with ridicule."
- Mel Brooks

first female renaissance artist

Propertia de Rossi

spectator and central figure

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean."
- Mark Twain, Following the Equator

olympian

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Venn Diagram

"People want a car that you can drive to work on Friday, the drag strip on Saturday and to church on Sunday."
- Lee Iacocca

on ambiguity

"Any idiot can make a decision with perfect information."
- Reza Satchu

"Just because you're not good at the beginning doesn't mean you can't be the best ultimately."
- Former 'C' student astronaut Scott Kelly

life philosophy

"Disparagement."
- Henry Ford particularly to his son Edsel