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Personal Quotes
"Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want."
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"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
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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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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
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"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
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"Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."
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"You're growing and that scares people, it frightens the shit out of them because they know if they don't step up within themselves you'll move forward with out them. When this happens, don't you dare settle to suit the mould - have courage to live without one."
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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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"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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"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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"We love certain people until death. We love others until we don't. And sometimes we never fell in love in the first place. Falling in love isn't necessary. Building character, life experience, development, and self-love: those are important. People get lost in the idea of affection for another person that they completely disregard themselves. That's dangerous. Life isn't about building something with someone. Life is about building something for yourself, but if someone comes along and they align, you share it with them."
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"Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose."
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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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"You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don't make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren't much fun anyway."
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"I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
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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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"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 would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."
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"Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog."
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"I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice."
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"Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance."
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"You're not asking me for advice, you're asking me for permission."
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"They wanted me to sit, listen, learn, be quiet, when I wanted to run, shout, jump, fly."
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"I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it."
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"I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter."
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"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."
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"I can't control your behavior; nor do I want that burden. but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out."
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"I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream."
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"I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming."
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"We really never so important for people as much as we think and feel.Do not afraid to live and die alone. it is not a pity at all , its much better to live in fake relation and with people who do not love you and do not have respect and value of your love."
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"It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you " it must be deliberate."
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"Immerse yourself into self-development, realization of potential and establishing yourself as real person and personality."
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"Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress."
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"Every emotion in the human spectrum is actually a teacher that is here to show us the degree in which we are either resisting life or flowing with life."
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"Confidence scares off whatever stands in your way."
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"You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever."
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"It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly."
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"Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you."
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"I will not cease to walk in the direction towards my purpose, even if it means constantly walking on a bumpy road."
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"You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy."
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