"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."
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"I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me."
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"My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul."
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"I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer."
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"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."
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"150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine."
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"Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful."
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"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."
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"Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them."
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"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course."
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"Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart."
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"You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."
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"You might as well take a chance on doing what you love."
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"You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world....you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart."
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"Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it."
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"Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!"
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"What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out."
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"I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together."
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"Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth."
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"There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK."
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