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What Really Matters Is The Work. And What Matters To Me Is Doing The Work. I'm Not Looking At The Back End: "what Am I Going To Get Out Of This? What's Going To Be The Reward?" I'm Just Looking At The Work, The Pleasure Of Being Able To Do The Work. And That's What The Fun Is: To Climb Up The Mountain Is The Fun, Not Standing At The Top. There's Nowhere To Go. But Climbing Up, That Struggle, That To Me Is Where The Fun Is. That To Me Is The Thrill. But Once That's Over, That's Kind Of It. I Don't Look Too Much Beyond That.

It's Good To Say, 'look, I Can't Always Be Right, But My Gut Tells Me This' - And Then You Confirm With Your Gut.

That's Another Thing That's Depressing: Certain Attitudes In Congress. They Assume That You're Dumb; They Can Take Advantage Of You Being Dumb. I Find That Offensive. It Insults Our Intelligence. They're Playing Us For Dumb And They're Being Dumb In Doing It. But I Believe That's Gonna Change. I Think Those People, The Mcconnells, Are Not Helping Us At All. They're Taking Us Backward In Time.

Storytelling Was A Way To See The World Bigger Than The One You Were Looking At, And That Had Great Appeal For Me. I Think Since That Was Part Of My Upbringing, It Became Part Of Me, And I Wanted To Pass It Along To My Kids And My Grandkids.

I Guess The Optimistic Thing Is That Those People In Congress Who Are Climate Deniers, I Think Their Time Has Run Out.