"Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul"
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"Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?"
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"If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power."
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"The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist."
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"Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion."
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"He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin."
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"I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it."
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"Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'"
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"Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results."
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"Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up."
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"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. They do not know how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose."
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"It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain."
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"How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!"
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"I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success."
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"Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff."
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"If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher."
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"Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response."
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"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable."
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"There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves."
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"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."
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