"I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do."
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"Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here."
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"The more people wake up spiritually, the more they'll begin to realize the depth of what Prabhupada was saying - how much he gave."
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"I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up."
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"It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next."
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"I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today."
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"As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill."
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"Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one."
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"I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day."
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"Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got."
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"I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say."
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"I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life."
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"In fact, when they wake up in the morning, they're Jack Nicholson or Robert De Niro or Josh Brolin. And it's built-in, but they think it's all this other stuff. But it's not. They'd be great if they didn't think about their part or if they did think about it."
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"Looking at her is like waking up."
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"The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning."
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"Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym."
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"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up."
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"All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream."
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"You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment."
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"Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience."
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