Mike Davis
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But the Lincoln bedroom, the chair where he was sitting, and right around the corner is the bus where Rosa Parks refused to move. You can sit in the seat where she sat. These... These artifacts, they're very powerful, and it's really easy to minimize them and even dismiss them and not live in wonder in their presence.
But the Lincoln bedroom, the chair where he was sitting, and right around the corner is the bus where Rosa Parks refused to move. You can sit in the seat where she sat. These... These artifacts, they're very powerful, and it's really easy to minimize them and even dismiss them and not live in wonder in their presence.
That's what galls me about what we're talking about, the privilege to be in that house. I mean, if you think about Adams and if you think about all the presidents who came before and all the families who lived there and then make a list of the people who had that privilege, who made the complaints that we're talking about now, there's nobody on that list. That just didn't happen.
That's what galls me about what we're talking about, the privilege to be in that house. I mean, if you think about Adams and if you think about all the presidents who came before and all the families who lived there and then make a list of the people who had that privilege, who made the complaints that we're talking about now, there's nobody on that list. That just didn't happen.
That's what galls me about what we're talking about, the privilege to be in that house. I mean, if you think about Adams and if you think about all the presidents who came before and all the families who lived there and then make a list of the people who had that privilege, who made the complaints that we're talking about now, there's nobody on that list. That just didn't happen.
I got this thing called a sweat pledge. If you apply for a scholarship from my foundation, you have to sign it. And the very first tenet on it says... I believe I have hit the greatest lottery of all time. I'm alive. I walk the earth. I live in America. Above all things, I'm grateful.
I got this thing called a sweat pledge. If you apply for a scholarship from my foundation, you have to sign it. And the very first tenet on it says... I believe I have hit the greatest lottery of all time. I'm alive. I walk the earth. I live in America. Above all things, I'm grateful.
I got this thing called a sweat pledge. If you apply for a scholarship from my foundation, you have to sign it. And the very first tenet on it says... I believe I have hit the greatest lottery of all time. I'm alive. I walk the earth. I live in America. Above all things, I'm grateful.
I have it there simply because I think it's impossible to feel sorry for yourself if your fundamental default position is gratitude. And those are the people that I'm trying to surround myself by and help.
I have it there simply because I think it's impossible to feel sorry for yourself if your fundamental default position is gratitude. And those are the people that I'm trying to surround myself by and help.
I have it there simply because I think it's impossible to feel sorry for yourself if your fundamental default position is gratitude. And those are the people that I'm trying to surround myself by and help.
Stewards.
Stewards.
Stewards.
And what are the common people, as William Shatner or Pulp before him would have put it, what are we to make of a person who has risen to that great height, who appears so dissatisfied with it? I mean, never mind all the other personal stuff. It's just like that alone. If you're a young person trying to figure out, you know, what's the path to a self-actualized life?
And what are the common people, as William Shatner or Pulp before him would have put it, what are we to make of a person who has risen to that great height, who appears so dissatisfied with it? I mean, never mind all the other personal stuff. It's just like that alone. If you're a young person trying to figure out, you know, what's the path to a self-actualized life?
And what are the common people, as William Shatner or Pulp before him would have put it, what are we to make of a person who has risen to that great height, who appears so dissatisfied with it? I mean, never mind all the other personal stuff. It's just like that alone. If you're a young person trying to figure out, you know, what's the path to a self-actualized life?
What might have to happen in my world for me to feel as though I accomplished a thing or did a thing or built a thing or made a thing? And then you hear somebody who rose to that level say, Talk about all of the adversity and all of the challenges and all the disappointment.
What might have to happen in my world for me to feel as though I accomplished a thing or did a thing or built a thing or made a thing? And then you hear somebody who rose to that level say, Talk about all of the adversity and all of the challenges and all the disappointment.
What might have to happen in my world for me to feel as though I accomplished a thing or did a thing or built a thing or made a thing? And then you hear somebody who rose to that level say, Talk about all of the adversity and all of the challenges and all the disappointment.