"Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft."
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"Well, all I know is what I read in the papers."
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"Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success."
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"If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%."
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"When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to."
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"There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?"
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"Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you."
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"I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of."
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"There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A."
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"If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back."
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"I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday."
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"I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived."
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"If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form."
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"Greatness lives on the edge of destruction"
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"You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be."
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"I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'."
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"Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving."
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"Your life will become better by making other lives better."
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"Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head."
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"Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity"
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