It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.

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Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

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When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

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Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

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It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

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I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

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Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

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Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.

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Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.

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Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.

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