"If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen."
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"I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to."
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"God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can."
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"The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom."
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"I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing."
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"You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired."
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"I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle."
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"Maybe I really could be one of the greatest of all time. Who doesn't want to be a legend, right?"
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"Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh."
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"You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet."
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"You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet."
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"I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility."
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"To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be."
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"I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time."
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"Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown."
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"It's not who jumps the highest - it's who wants it the most"
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"At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized."
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"'The tea is coming!' ...she may want a martini, but make her drink tea."
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"Life isn't what you want it to be, it's what you make it become."
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"Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best."
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