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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
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And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.
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You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much.
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This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.
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We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.
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sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.
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I make a gesture that is intended to convey, Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like, and probably actually conveys, Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.
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