"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get."
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"Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here."
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"I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself."
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"You can slow time down by traveling. That month from Shringar to the Taj Mahal is like a year in my life currently. Really, time is a measure of change, in a vacuum time doesn't exist because nothing's changing. If you can pack your life full of interesting changes you stretch it out. So if you want to live longer, have a really interesting life."
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"Study the past if you want to define the future."
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"We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability."
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"When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be."
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"I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you."
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"Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun."
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"If you want it and believe you can have it, you will."
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"When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord."
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"See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out."
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"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically."
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"Only hire people you want to have dinner with."
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"As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it."
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"Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business."
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"If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business."
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"My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person."
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"I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot."
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"When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie."
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