"Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason"
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"Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time."
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"I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love."
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"So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God."
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"It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead."
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"There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value."
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"We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public."
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"I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing."
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"If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off."
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"My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that."
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"I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly."
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"I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work."
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"For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too."
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"Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him."
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"Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself."
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"Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great."
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"Without risk, faith is an impossibility."
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"I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best."
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"Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it."
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"It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . ."
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