"We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth."
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"I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about."
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"And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned."
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"What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world."
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"I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool."
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"I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect."
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"I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it."
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"I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities."
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"As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood."
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"Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in."
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"But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine."
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"Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer."
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"You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation."
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"I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere."
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"Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it."
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"Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed."
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"I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?"
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"I don't understand why they trippin', If you ask me, Flow is just as nice as, I admit the propane, I just spit, probably, Just raise the gas prices, Everybody in the club, Try and get as fresh as me, What you want dog, Trying to stay recession free, And spit, refreshly."
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"Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does."
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"And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in."
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