"Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight."
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"Just now when I said, "I have a crush on you," you didn't say, "no way loser". I'd rather have a lobotomy by a leper. That means something"
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"The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me."
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"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
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"What is once well done is done forever."
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"Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other."
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"Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it"
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"Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them."
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"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
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"The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race."
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"Buy land, they're not making it anymore."
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"We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration."
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"The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears."
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"Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus."
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"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
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"As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for"
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"To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love."
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"The next phase and this is part of what I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration. There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too. That you have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting."
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"Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption."
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"A Warrior trusts other people because, first and foremost, he trusts himself."
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