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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.

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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.

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Be Magic Choose And Believe That You Can Do Anything You Set Your Mind To Believe. We Are Who We Choose To Be.

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You Might Be [outshining Me In Many Ways]. But If We Get On A Treadmill, There Are Two Things: You're Getting Off First Or I'm Going To Die. It's That Simple, Right?

I Think It Would Be Arrogant And Borderline Foolish To Believe There's No Other Life Forms That Exist Out There.

Can I Say Something? Um, I'm The Type Of Person That If You Ask Me A Question And I Don't Know The Answer, I'm Gonna Tell You That I Don't Know. But I Bet You What, I Know How To Find The Answer And I Will Find The Answer.

Probably Means There's A Good Chance. Possibly Means We Might Or We Might Not.

I Feel Like I Could Run For President. People Often Laugh, But If I Set My Mind To It, Within The Next 15 Years I Could Be In The White House.

It Feels Like God Visits Everywhere Else, But Lives In Africa.

I Was Raised In A Baptist Household, Went To A Catholic Church, Lived In A Jewish Neighborhood, And Had The Biggest Crush On The Muslim Girls From One Neighborhood Over.

Don't Let Failure Go To Your Heart, And Don't Let Success Go To Your Head.

What People Are Perceiving Will Dictate What Their Life And Ultimately What Your Interaction Is.

I've Never Really Viewed Myself As Particularly Talented. I've Viewed Myself As Slightly Above Average In Talent. And Where I Excel Is Ridiculous, Sickening, Work Ethic. You Know, While The Other Guy's Sleeping? I'm Working. While The Other Guy's Eatin'? I'm Working. While The Other Guy's Making Love, I Mean, I'm Making Love, Too. But I'm Working Really Hard At It.

I've Always Considered Myself To Be Just Average Talent And What I Have Is A Ridiculous Insane Obsessiveness For Practice And Preparation.

I Refuse To Accept Anything Less Than 100% Of What I Can Achieve.

If You're Always Ready, You Don't Have To Get Ready.

Marvin Gaye Said There's A Song Inside Of Me And I Can't Get It Out. And I Know It's In There, And I Can Feel That It's In There, And I Can't Get It Out. There's So Much That I Want To Say, And I Haven't Been Able To Figure Out How To Say It In My Art. I Can Only Say It In Ham-fisted, Clumsy, Nonpoetic Ways, And I'm Trying To Figure Out How To Talk About Life And Talk About Love And Talk About Pain And Trials And Tribulation In An Artistic Form.

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

The Central Idea Of Love Is Not Even A Relationship Commitment, The First Thing Is A Personal Commitment To Be The Best Version Of Yourself With Or Without That Person That You're With. You Have To Every Single Day-mind, Body, And Spirit-wake Up With A Commitment To Be Better.

And Where I Excel Is Ridiculous, Sickening, Work Ethic. You Know, While The Other Guy's Sleeping? I'm Working.

There's A Forgiveness That Literary Audiences Will Give You That Film Audiences Don't Give You. It's The Two Hour Construct. You're In There And It Needs To Climax And Finish.

Just As A Person, Just In My Life, The Way I Was Raised, My Grandmother Made It Very Clear That God Will Make A Way.

Hurry Up And Write Your Number Down Before I Don't Want It No More.

I Would Have Absolutely Messed Up 'the Matrix'.

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I Think That My Sensibilities Are Becoming Slightly Less Delicate And I'm Venturing Out In A Storytelling World.

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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A Human Being Having A Full Emotional Conversation With A Dog Is Funny, Innately. It's One Of Those Things Where You Get In A Scene And You Always Go For What Is The Best Joke, And A Talking Dog For Some Reason, Whatever He Says, Is Hilarious." (about His Role Wiht A Talking Dog In The Forthcoming Men In Black Sequel.

I'm A Student Of World Religion, So To Me, It's Hugely Important To Have Knowledge And To Understand What People Are Doing.

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Correct Me If I'm Wrong, But Isn't Driving Around On A Bus And Having A Campfire Kind Of Adding To The Environment Problem?

The First Step Is You Have To Say That You Can.

Here I Stand Before You - Brown. Color Of The Mountains Colossal As The Earth Wrapped So Deliciously Within My Own Joy And Misery Feathers Of My Wings Paralyzed By The Distance Of My Mind Here I Stand Before You, The Color Of The Night Frozen By The Potential Of Me.

Summer, Summer, Summertime Time To Sit Back And Unwind.

Ninety Percent Of What Youre Saying Isnt Coming Out Of Your Mouth.

Basic Principles: No Matter What, No Matter When, No Matter Who... Any Man Has A Chance To Sweep Any Woman Off Her Feet. He Just Needs The Right Broom.

If You're Not Making Someone Else's Life Better, Then You're Wasting Your Time. Your Life Will Become Better By Making Other Lives Better.

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Never Lie To People, Because The People You Are Able To Lie To, Are The People Who Trust You.

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