"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
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"Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it"
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"The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be."
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"I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker."
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"The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen."
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"You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do."
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"Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat."
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"Pause and remember - Slow and steady will get you where you want to go. If you put too much pressure on yourself for results too quickly, you will quickly give up."
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"You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them."
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"You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know."
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"Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts."
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"A long time ago, I made me a rule. I let people do what they want to do."
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"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
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"God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him."
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"Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world."
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"Your true potential will speak as loud as your willingness to listen will allow it. If you simply breathe for the next 365 days, your life is going to be different, but is that the “different” you want to create in your life? You have to make your possibilities welcome in your life."
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"You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come."
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"Money isnt what drives me, getting fans who truly understand what I'm about and want to see me live is where my head is at."
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"You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet."
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"What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion."
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