I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

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You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

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I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

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