Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

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I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. — Serena Williams

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Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers. —Socrates

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Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up. — Isabelle Lafleche

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What you desire, as an actor, is to have an impact. That's why you did it. You want to move people, and you want to resonate with your audience. It's always a great compliment to have people appreciate and speak of the characters. I can go anywhere in the world, to places where people don't actually speak English, and people can say, verbatim, what I said on the show as Mr. Eko, which is great. That's fun!

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. — Alice Walker

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You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. ― George Bernard Shaw

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