"The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility."
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"You're something between a dream and a miracle."
"For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
"Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it."
"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
"Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told."
"I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic."
"What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?"
"Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love."
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
"You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness."
"Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer."
"Your smile shines like the morning sun."
"The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth."
"Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child."
"No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up."
"Self-Contempt [10w] Self-contempt is calling yourself collect and refusing to accept the charges."
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."
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