"Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink."
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"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
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"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."
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"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come."
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"I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon."
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"It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting."
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"Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are."
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"Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for breakfast, you couldn’t just go on the Internet and tweet it out. There was only one way to do it. You had to go outside and scream at the top of your lungs, 'I ate waffles for breakfast!' That’s why so many people ended up in institutions. They seemed crazy, but when you think about it, they were just ahead of their time."
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"Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost."
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"Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system."
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"Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork."
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"When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."
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"If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you."
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"So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect."
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"Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant that is, and I thank God that I have a car and my health and gas. That was phrased wrong-normally you wouldn't say, thank God I have gas."
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"If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that."
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"I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. Its been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch TV. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words."
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"The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not."
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"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
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"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."
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