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The Big Thing I Tell My Kids Is You Have To Control How You Label Things. It's Very Important To Me They Understand The Power They Have To Create The Lives That They Want.

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The Big Thing I Tell My Kids Is You Have To Control How You Label Things. It's Very Important To Me They Understand The Power They Have To Create The Lives That They Want.

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Reading... There Have Been Millions And Billions And Billions And Gazillions Of People That Have Lived Before All Of Us. There's No New Problem You Could Have - With Your Parents, With School, With A Bully, With Anything. There's No Problem You Can Have That Someone Hasn't Already Solved And Wrote About It In A Book.

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When You're Running And You Are There, There's A Little Person That Talks To You And That Little Person Says “oh, I'm Tired”, “my Lounge's About To Pop”, “i'm So Hurt”, “i'm So Tired”, “there's No Way I Can Possibly Continue”. And You Wanna Quit. Right? That Person, If You Learn How To Defeat That Person When You're Running You Will Learn How To Not Quit When Things Get Hard In Your Life.

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You Can't Be Scared To Die For The Truth. The Truth Is The Only Thing That Is Ever Going To Be Constant.

When I Say I Am Going To Run Three Miles, I Run Five. With That Mentality, It Is Actually Difficult To Lose.

You’ll Never Achieve 100 Percent If 99 Percent Is Okay.

Our Whole Dream For Our Home Was For It To Be An Artist's Haven. So There Are Paint Supplies; There's A Piano With A Microphone And A Recorder Right There To Capture Things Right In The Second. There's Editing Equipment. There Are Cameras. I Think The Only Thing In Our House That People Would Be Surprised By Is The Efficiency.

Gettin' Jiggy Wit It Is, Like, The Next Level Of Cool. It's Cool To The Eighth Power. Some People Are Fly, Some People Are Kind Of Hot. But When You Are The Jiggiest, When You Exude Jiggy-essence, It's The Acme Of Cool.

The First Step Before Anybody Else In The World Believes It, Is That You Believe It.

Coming From Sitcom Television And Coming From Music You Burn Up Every Single Second. You Don't Leave Anything There. You Burn It Up And You Pass Out When You Walk Off Stage, So I Took That Concept Into Acting.

I Wake Up Every Morning Believing Today Is Going To Be Better Than Yesterday.

I Would Have Absolutely Messed Up 'the Matrix'.

I Like To Look Good, But I Like My Body To Function Well More Than Anything. For Me, It's As Spiritual And Intellectual As It Is Physical. And Emotional. I Enjoy Pushing Myself.

I Believe That My Connection, To My Higher Power, Is Separate From Everybody’s. I Don’t Believe That The Muslims Have All The Answers. I Don’t Believe The Christians Have All The Answer, Or The Jews Have All The Answers...

You Can't Win Enough, You Can't Have Enough Money, You Can't Succeed Enough. There Is Not Enough.

I Love You And I'm Here For You.

We Didn't Grow Up With The Sense That Where We Were Was Where We Were Gonna Be. We Grew Up With The Sense That Where We Were Almost Didn't Matter, Because We Will Be Becoming Something Greater.

For Our Family, The Entire Structure Of Our Life, Our Home, Our Business Relationships - The Entire Purpose Is For Everyone To Be Able To Create In A Way That Makes Them Happy. Fame Is Almost An Inconsequential By-product Of What We're Really Trying To Accomplish. We Are Trying To Put Great Things Into The World, We're Trying To Have Fun, And We're Trying To Become The Greatest Versions Of Ourselves In The Process Of Doing Things We Love.

Listen, Michael Jackson Is Really Funny. To Have Time To Spend With Him And Actually Be Around Him, He's Not What....people Think He Is. Michael Jackson's Like A Black Belt Too, So He Will Kick Your Ass If You Say Something About Him." In Disbelief The Interviewer Replied "no, Really?" To Which Will Said, "yes, Michael Jackson Kicked Over My Head!

Believing In Yourself Is The First Step To Accomplishing Any Goal. If You Think You're Going To Fail, You Probably Will.

Greatness Lives On The Edge Of Destruction

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Your Words And Thoughts Have Physical Power.

If You're Not Willing To Work Hard, Let Someone Else Do It. I'd Rather Be With Someone Who Does A Horrible Job, But Gives 110% Than With Someone Who Does A Good Job And Gives 60%.

Throughout Life People Will Make You Mad, Disrespect You And Treat You Bad. Let God Deal With The Things They Do, Cause Hate In Your Heart Will Consume You Too.

I Want To Represent The Idea That You Really Can Make What You Want I Believe I Can Create Whatever I Want To Create.

For Me, There Is Nothing More Valuable Than How People Feel In A Movie Theater About A Movie.

I Think For Me, As A Parent, Once My Children Are Thoroughly Informed, They Can Make The Decisions That They Want To Make. The Only Thing That I Demand Is A Complete Comprehension [of The Information].

You Might Have More Talent Than Me, You Might Be Smarter Than Me, You Might Be Sexier Than Me, You Might Be All Of Those Things You Got It On Me In Nine Categories. But If We Get On The Treadmill Together, There Are Two Things: You're Getting Off First, Or I'm Going To Die. It's Really That Simple, Right?

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The First Eight Years Of Schooling Was With All White People. So That Helped Me To Understand How White People Think. I Think That Transition Is What Helped Me Bridge The Gap, Because That's What My Success Has Really Been About: Bridging The Gap Between The Black Community And The White Community.

The Desire To Be A Good Father Is Really Innate. There Aren't A Lot Of Movies That Depict That Relationship Because Men, We Have To Pretend That We're Not That Emotional About It.

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We Spend Money That We Do Not Have, On Things We Do Not Need, To Impress People Who Do Not Care.

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Love Is The Ultimate Theme, But It's Not Just For Women.

In Black Neighborhoods, Everybody Appreciated Comedy About Real Life. In The White Community, Fantasy Was Funnier. I Started Looking For The Jokes That Were Equally Hilarious Across The Board, For Totally Different Reasons.

Money And Success Don't Change People; They Merely Amplify What Is Already There.

I Have No Idea What My Limits Are. I Believe That If I Set My Mind To It, Within The Next Fifteen Years, I Would Be The President Of The United States.

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