"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."
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"Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying."
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"It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?"
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"I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!"
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"The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States."
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"I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know."
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"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."
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"Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime."
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"Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it."
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"There’s no reason to hold yourself back and say you can’t do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it."
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"For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up."
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"Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle."
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"I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know."
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"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images."
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"There are guys I admire. Like Jimmy Stewart and - a more modern example - Tom Hanks. They managed to do it and have a really high standard for their work, but at the same time they remained incredibly classy and well-regarded personally throughout the process, which I thought was rare and kind of cool. And I'm trying. I try. I haven't thrown any TVs out the hotel window yet."
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"If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God."
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"Look for foods that create beauty from the inside out. Instead of coating yourself in chemical laden beauty products, why not try to get healthy skin from the foods you eat."
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"You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try."
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"Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind."
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"Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure."
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