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My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow.
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program — your tax-dollar will go further.
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers — poets, actors, journalists — they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.
Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.
Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.
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