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Personal Quotes
"I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton."
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"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
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"I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine."
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"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
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"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."
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"Giving is the highest expression of potency."
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"Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad."
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"Happy are those who evolve from within."
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"Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose."
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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
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"For a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had."
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"I don't talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me."
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"An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness."
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"I love science fiction - always have."
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"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
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"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
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"You shouldn't allow people who hurt you to occupy a fraction of your heart. Forgive and move on, especially in this season of thanksgiving."
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"Do not, for one more minute, spend your precious time and energy on or surround yourself with people who are less than you deserve."
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"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."
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"Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality."
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"And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you."
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"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
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"She wanted her life back and that was mainly because of Vadim. She was a man she didn't want to leave. Even if her first instinct had been to flee, the time for running was over. She wouldn't live in fear forever."
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"I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse."
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"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
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"And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too."
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"How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit."
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"Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."
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"Some lessons are learnt the hard way, but worth it."
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"Think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It's not really anything he said, or anything he did - it was the feeling that came along with it. Crazy thing is, I don't know if I'm ever going to feel that way again. But I don't know if I should. I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright, but I just thought, 'How can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?' Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him. It was losing me."
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