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"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."
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"I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it."
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"I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment."
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"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."
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"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
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"Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
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"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."
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"You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then suddenly, the quest was over. I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down.Does that make sense? I had been sure that as soon as I had everything back I'd feel good. But inside I felt worse than when I stared."
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"When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band."
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"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."
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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."
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"It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded."
Ambition

"We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality."
Activism

"There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do."
Motivation

"Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them."
Power

"Do you want me to call the internet police for you?"
Humor

"Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way."
Philosophy

"People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough."
Resilience

"Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?"
Acceptance

"I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality."
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