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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.

Jim Carrey

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that 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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Chance Failure Father Learning Lesson
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
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Creation Depression Desperate Ingredient Interesting Necessary
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
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Choose Disguise Fear Path Practical
I don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.
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Channel Regular
It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
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Dreams Give Up Motivational Risk Surrender
I’m making a conscious choice to see challenges as beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way.
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Benefit Business Challenge Choice Deal Productive
Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
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Certain Fan Recognition Reverse Stalk
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
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Focus Forget Laugh Life Pain Reduce
Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.
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Compassion Currency One Liner True Wealth
Usually you regret the things you say no to.
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Justice Regret
Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else.
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Art Comedy Joy
People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
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Desperation Human Being Learning Motivational People
I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.
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Absolute Career Cry Laugh Theater
My report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.
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Childhool Student
Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Cable Ultimate
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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Face Freeze Pay Society Success Time
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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Moments Pain Regret Uncertain
I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
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Alcohol Beautiful Drug Life Positive Serious
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.
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Hell Listen Noise Place
You know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.
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Dangerous Lige Music Trouble
Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
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Hygine Package
Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.
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Beautiful Bloom Flower Light Worry
Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.
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Close Far Impulse Madness Wrong
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
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Acceptance Glory Invisible Light Need Risk Shine World
I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.
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Alone Party Performance
The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
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Currency Effect Value
For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.
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Noise Sensitive

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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