"For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth."
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"There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life."
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"Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple."
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"Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man."
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"Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me."
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"The first step is you have to say that you can."
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"I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it."
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"I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better."
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"Greatness exists in all of us."
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"I love living. I think that's infectious, it's something you can't fake."
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"Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves."
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"If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better."
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"We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care."
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"One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations."
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"I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything."
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"Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on."
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"Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way."
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"What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of"
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"Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right"
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"We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean."
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