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"While you have people who are actually fronting for your needs and wants, sometimes your needs and wants may not be right for you. The people around you are just trying to keep their jobs."
"Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original."
"the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre"
"What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV."
"You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future."
"I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment."
"Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view."
"If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way."
"Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway."
"My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God."
"When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new."
"In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you've seen before, it's kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about films in the first place."
"To remove all credibility from what you're saying try wearing sunglasses on your forehead."
"We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying."
"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original."
"Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me."
"But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith ."
"Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can."
"Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service."
"Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them."
