We’ve collected the best Me Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Zora Neale Hurston, Wayne Dyer, Robert Frank, Henry Rollins, Michael Jordan. Use them as an inspiration.
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Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
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Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
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I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.
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I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone‘s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
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Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
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No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.
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To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.
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Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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Anything simple always interests me.
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Let me tell you something – being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.
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High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
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I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it.
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This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.
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I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.
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I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. ‘Lord, send me!’
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I don’t let anyone’s insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that’s all that matters to me.
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Failure is a word unknown to me.
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Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
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Baseball has been very good to me.
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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
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I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
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Let me show you how it’s done… Loser!
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I now believe in love at first sight. Especially after it’s happened to me.
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What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.
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Give me love and work – these two only.
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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I don’t set out to win awards. I don’t think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it’s an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.
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I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
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I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me; I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.
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For me, honestly, it’s not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It’s about what I’ve got to do and how I can contribute to the team.
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I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
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I’m a blessing to whoever gets to really know me.
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Strangely enough, when the Sugababes’ ‘Freak Like Me’ went to number 1, which was built around my ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric‘ song, I had another song called ‘Rip’ go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.
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Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.
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To me, beauty is confidence. I think beauty comes from one’s confident inner self and attitude. Make-up and styling are the cherries on top of your beautiful inner-self!
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Let me tell you something: I’m a simple person who lives a simple life.
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You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
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The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.
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It’s not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It’s a lifestyle – like a suaveness or a swag, per se.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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People ask ‘do you make a conscious effort not to swear?’ – if you’re doing silly stuff you’re not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
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Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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God made me the way I am, and I accept myself. I am who I am, and I’m proud of myself.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: ‘Use me.’
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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You know what’s funny to me? Attitude.
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I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me.
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Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
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Stand a little less between me and the sun.
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I enjoy an evening stroll. It helps me to reflect and eases stress.
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Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.
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To me, flowers are happiness.
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
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I try to tell all the – not even the kids, even people older than me – to just be themselves. Don’t wear what I wear ’cause I wear it; wear what you like.
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Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.
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Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.
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There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
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When I’m lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
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My attitude is, if someone’s going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
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My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
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I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
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Smoking calms me down. It’s enjoyable. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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Being handsome wasn’t much of a burden. It worked for me.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Everything for me is either a learn or a win. I just keep moving forward, and that’s about it, honestly.
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As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I’ve learned that failure will always come. I’ve learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.
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Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
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One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
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When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’
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Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death.
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
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I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
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Everyone has different paths. I’ve been lucky to have a good support system – my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.
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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving – she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, ‘What if you are wrong?’ and I answered that rather briefly, and that’s gone viral.
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I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
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I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
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School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
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Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.
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Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
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For me, I know that people always expect me to be perfect, so when I’m not perfect, it’s really frustrating. I’m really hard on myself and want things to work out right away.
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Things don’t really impress me. Memories impress me. It’s not the toys, it’s the people.
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
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People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
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Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
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My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping my head above the water.
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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
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The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.
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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
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I’m usually the kind of person where if someone tells me, ‘Oh my God, you have to watch this show. It’s amazing,’ I kind of want to go against it and not watch it. But for ‘Stranger Things,’ I couldn’t resist. I had to watch it.
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When I look out at the people and they look at me and they’re smiling, then I know that I’m loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
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God has entrusted me with myself.
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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone‘s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.
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My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down – but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round.
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That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
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Eskimo: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ Priest: ‘No, not if you did not know.’ Eskimo: ‘Then why did you tell me?’
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A lot of people know me, but they don’t know me well.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
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The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‘Justice to all. Appeasement to none.’ This is our secularism.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
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Include me out.
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People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I’m like, ‘Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That’s it.’ There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.
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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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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
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Anyone is free to judge me, but they weren’t there in my tough times.
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For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
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I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
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When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’
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I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
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To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.
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I don’t give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am, and who cares what other people say?
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To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
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Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
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The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
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Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
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Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda… and woke up with me.
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If you behind me, I’m not going to look back and try and figure out what you’re doing behind me.
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I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am.
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You’ve got to have a villain and they’ll always make me a villain. I’m used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
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It’s not just about being sexy, it’s about being confident and me being confident in my sexuality.
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Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
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Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’
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Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’
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I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.
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Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy.
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Life to me is a journey – you never know what may be your next destination.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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I may be crazy, but that don’t make me wrong.
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A girl phoned me the other day and said… ‘Come on over, there’s nobody home.’ I went over. Nobody was home.
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I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
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My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.
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The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
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As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.
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I am someone who can’t hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don’t carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that’s the only way to be happy and peaceful.
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I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
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Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.
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Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
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Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he’s somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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To me, there’s no great chef without a great team.
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I’m a private person. People just see me as the bad boy, and if that’s how they want to perceive me, then so be it – but they don’t know who I am.
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You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
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I’m just doing me, and to me, that’s what got me this far.
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People see me as cute, but I’m so much more than that.
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I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
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The environment is everything that isn’t me.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.
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One of things I like about looking at pictures when you’re young and also meeting back with old friends you haven’t seen in a long time is, for me, it’s a glimpse of who I was.
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Let me be clear: I unequivocally support a two-state solution as the path to resolution of the Israel and Palestinian conflict, with Israel as the national homeland for the Jewish people. Moreover, I reject the demonization and de-legitimization of Israel represented by the BDS narrative and campaign.
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I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
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You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I’m not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
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If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
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Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language… it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.
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Success, to me, is just doing things that I’m really proud of.
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‘The bigtime for you is just around the corner.’ They told me that first in 1952 – boy, it’s been a long corner. If I don’t hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I’m gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
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Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
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The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.
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For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I’m totally fine with that being me.
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To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
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It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.
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All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
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I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.
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I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
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I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.
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Football’s a part of me. If I’m not playing, then I’m not me.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
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Confidence is not, ‘They will like me’. Confidence instead is, ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’.
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I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.
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What keeps me going is goals.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.
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For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.
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I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It’s such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful – like, really beautiful – and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It’s a great place to be. It’s like you are in a little bit of a dream world.
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I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it’s been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.
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Positive energy and attitude is sexy to me.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
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I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
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To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.
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Being cool, having a ‘cool’ energy is just not attractive to me.
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I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.
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All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
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My mom and dad did something special when they made me.
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I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.
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I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
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I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
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I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don’t know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I’m chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
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There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.
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The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.
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I’m just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, ‘It is what it is.’ I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they’re not, and that’s OK. I’m just going to be me. You can’t be everything to everyone.
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To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
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I have a saying – ‘You treat me good, I’ll treat you better. You treat me bad, I’ll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock ’em out.’
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I don’t care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
535
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
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All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
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I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
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It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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