"Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things."
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"Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums"
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"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
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"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
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"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
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"I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing"
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"When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay."
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"I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker."
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"I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do."
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"Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it."
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"Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task."
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"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."
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"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
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"To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world."
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"Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth."
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"The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself."
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"The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture."
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"I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise."
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"Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten."
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"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
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