The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

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Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

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One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me.... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

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To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

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I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

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