"Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well."
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"You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do."
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"Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer."
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"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."
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"To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try."
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"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
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"I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better."
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"You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible"
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"The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours."
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"Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender."
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"Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life."
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"I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going."
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"I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda."
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"I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?"
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"You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself."
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"And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through."
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"Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence"
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"You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down."
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"Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."
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"Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes."
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