"I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else - that would be fatal."
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"Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself."
"Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you."
"Don't talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it."
"Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion."
"I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there."
"If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around."
"Paul Ryan has become a doormat...And he's become this little person who is following Romney around."
"To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue."
"And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to."
"The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why."
"I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live."
"Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small."
"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."
"We cannot fail in following nature."
"I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around."