Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
JIM CARREYI used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy.
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I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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I just want to be myself.
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The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.
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You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.
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Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
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This is the voice of your ego. If you listen to it, there will always be someone who seems to be doing better than you.
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If I’m not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.
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I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.
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Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.
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Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.
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I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
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150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.
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We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
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The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
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My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham, I was the whole pig.
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I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, faith leaps over it.
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I don’t hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.
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I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
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It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
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I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.
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You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
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One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
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Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?
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I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.
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There was a time when people said, ‘Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.’ Now they just say, ‘Pay him!’
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