I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
TYLER PERRYIf you’ve ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you’ll understand that the underlying theme of everything I’ve done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
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Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.
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Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
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I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
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It’s always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.
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A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.
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The important thing for me is, and what I’d like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you’d find some pretty interesting things there.
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I’m very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I’m all for the underdog, so I’d like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst.
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You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
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My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
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It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
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Don’t stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
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…when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That’s the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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There’s nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don’t hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn’t know and for the things they didn’t know to do.
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