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Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

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Tucker Max
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 27
Author
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Atlanta
Georgia
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Authority
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General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.
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I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.
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I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.
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Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.
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The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.
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I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.
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The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.
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I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?
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