The Zest Jar

A collection of quotations that I need to keep. They might have inspired me or motivated me. They might have made me laugh. They might have been pathetic. They might have given me valuable advice. Or they might just be valuable memories from my life.

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Flirting is natural. You can go flirt with this male cat as long as you come back to me at the end of the day.

Alec

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Francesco: The world can be a beautiful or terrible place.

Julia: Depending on your cab driver.

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It’s not muscle memory we are training; it’s instinct.

Tomasz Papkala

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Hyun: Like if I rated him on a scale of 1 to 10

Hyun: He would be about

Hyun: Mud

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“MY BIG fear,” says Paul Ryan, an influential Republican congressman from Wisconsin, is that America is losing sight of the notion that “the condition of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life.” “Opportunity,” according to Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, “is slipping away.” Marco Rubio, a Republican senator from Florida, thinks that “each element” of the sequence that leads to success “is eroding in our country.” “Of course you have to work hard, of course you have to take responsibility,” says Hillary Clinton, a former first lady, senator and secretary of state, “but we are making it so difficult for people who do those things to feel that they are going to achieve the American dream.” When discussing the chances of ordinary Americans rising to the top, politicians who agree about little else sound remarkably similar.

A hereditary meritocracy.

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Arturo trying to hook me up with his friend.

Arturo: Why nottttt

Me: Because he doesn't ballroom.

Arturo: Wowowowowowowow

But he lifts and he's nice!

Ballroom guys are dicks

That's your number 1 problem

Me: I know

but I like dicks

Arturo: Good pun

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At least half the tech products people use will be because of style and how it makes them feel rather than pure utility.

Julie Zhuo on the future of design

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We call you the thumb generation. You do everything with your thumbs. We used to stand on the street and wave our arms to find a car. You just tap your thumbs and you get one. You find a date with your thumbs. You break up with your thumbs. Little movements, for big brains.

Elderly cab driver

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Student: [presents concept on future transportation]

Professor: What about for fat people?

Student: They don't have a future.

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Professor: There will be pizza, but if you want it you should come early.

Student: So if we're watching our weight, should we show up late?

Professor: Well, I mean…

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I do not want my penis chopped off!

Yimeng Xu

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Judy: I think I can have a budding career in the lighting industry.

Me: Why?

Judy: Because I get to work with lights all the time. It might mold me into a bright person.

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Ooh, this is like a swingset!

Judy, while jiggling my calf fat

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"It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things." "Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry. "I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want. Like on the dance floor, did you want to kiss me? Why didn't you?" --Sam to Charlie in Perks of Being a Wallflower

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All life is a series of problems which we must try and solve, again and again, until we die.

Dowager Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey Season 4 Episode 9

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Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.

Ernest Hemingway (via itsquoted)