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You Play A Part In Every Aspect Of Your Life Going The Way You Want Or Not Going The Way That You Want. It Has Very Little To Do With Other People.

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You Play A Part In Every Aspect Of Your Life Going The Way You Want Or Not Going The Way That You Want. It Has Very Little To Do With Other People.

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As A Child, I Watched 'dallas' And That Was My Vision For My Life For As Long As I Could Remember.

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?

Your Life Will Become Better By Making Other Lives Better.

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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...

Give Me About 10 Years, I'm Going To Run For President. If I Can Squeeze In An Nba Championship Before That, I'll Do It.

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I Was Trying So Hard. I Would Memorize The Entire Script, Then I'd Be Lipping Everybody's Lines While They Were Talking. When I Watch Those Episodes, It's Disgusting. My Performances Were Horrible.

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.

Don't Chase People. Be Yourself, Do Your Own Thing And Work Hard

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