"Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking."
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"You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!"
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"I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you."
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"Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!"
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"If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing"
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"There was one tour where I thought, "If I can't get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit." Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I'm sure the audience can tell, too."
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"I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?"
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"Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition."
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"The wisdom to quit is all we have left."
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"That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one."
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"John Kricfalusi wanted me to quit the job when he got fired in 1992. But the problem there is that I wasn't his partner. I was a hired gun. And then people badmouth me for 10 years, like a rock in my shoe in that camp. It's a very small but active group of posters, as I've come to find out. But the thing is that I finally got to the point where, "Okay, I get you, I get it you don't like that I did what I did." But the thing was, the whole story was cockeyed. They said I put everybody out of work. No, I didn't. Everybody was going to be out of work if I didn't continue the Ren & Stimpy show."
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"The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it."
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"I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate."
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"If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life."
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"Quit while you're a head, that's what I say."
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"If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!"
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"Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time."
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"When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit."
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"A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong."
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"I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M."
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