"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."
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"I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself."
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"Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself."
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"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."
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"Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are."
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"I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is."
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"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
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"To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."
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"I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience."
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"Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself."
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"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are."
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"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses."
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"Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you."
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"Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder."
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"You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before."
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"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself."
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"Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future."
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"Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention."
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"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."
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"Be yourself and true to yourself. You can do different things in the world."
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