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I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery. ”
I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are. ”
Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you'll always end up better than where you started. ”
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low. ”
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ”
Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ”
Since I was four, my goal was to be a famous singer and a famous actor. ”
There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost. ”
Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from. ”
The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation. ”