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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”.

Stand Responsibility Somebody Surprise
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Right Possibility Invent Daily
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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.

Prepare Rainbow Cloud Somebody
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Life Great Dance Song
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You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self.

End Forgive Other Real
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Listen Hear Voice God
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Alas the last of the great Titans… The great one who pricked himself on a senticous bush as he pushed for the freedom of his people from oppression… An epitome of sophronization…We shall not cry, rather we will celebrate a life truly well lived…

Great Titan Pricked Freedom
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I’ve learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Learn Great Gift Give
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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Open Eye Beauty Around
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When people see the laughing face, even if they’re jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

Laughing Face Jealous People
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it’s more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Translate Another Race Fall
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Finally Die Respect Self
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and ... everybody's hot.

Believe Important Confident Hot
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When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Dangerous Place Footballer Friend
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

About Art Because Better
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

About Both Empirical Everything
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

About Art Better Certain
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I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

Caught Ever Just Lie
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Temple Joy Pain School
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

Good Quality Better Bad
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Rise Above Cloud Ignorance
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Lift Else Someone Yourself
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In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

Great Proportion Degree Happiness
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

Permit Stoop Hate Never
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.

Polite Grow Result Patient
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

Grace Old Die Confuse
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Sorrow Fear Life Approach
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Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.

Experience Taught Connect Best
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Easy Country Understand Mean
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I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'

Feel Guilty Sometimes Like
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Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Fool Condemn Criticize Complain
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Between Human Qualities Little
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As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Change Begin Single Individual
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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself especially when everybody is watching

True Hard Thing Yourself
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If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour, you can lose yourself.

Lose People Right Around
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I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

Support Question Extent Right
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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Stage Happy Time Adult
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Album Allowed Got Guy
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

About Articulate Does Explaining
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

Approach Artist Back Being
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Anything Colour Expression Like
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Advantage Again Become Better
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The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Most Create Act Ever
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Aging Belief Between Biology
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“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Whatever Expect Confidence Becomes
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“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”

Rewards Enjoy Greater Indispensable
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“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.”

Never Say Yourself Come
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“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
Grows Sharing Yourself Others
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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Income Yourself Future Gurantee
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