Will Smith Quotes
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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Birth was the death of him.
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My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have.
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I don't want to be known as somebody that everybody knows about.
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When I was 10 or 11, I started to sketch, and my drawings happened to be like fashion drawings... I'm lucky to have had this dream to chase since I was very young.
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I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.
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Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.
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Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
