"I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing."
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"There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him."
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"When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it."
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"I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted."
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"I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others."
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"Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention."
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"We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper."
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"All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited."
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"All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free."
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"You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories."
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"Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end."
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"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
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"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
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"In old interviews I was still worried about being judged. I think my life was about how can I keep myself in control. How can I just get through this and be okay? And, you know, you turn the corner. You realize that you're not imprisoned by your life or your circumstances or your genetics or anything. I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it."
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"When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live."
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"In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us."
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"We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love."
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"You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful."
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"If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential."
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"Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat."
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