frankly speaking

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Sometimes you need perspective. You’ve been right in front of greatness so often that you need to step back and see it again for the first time..”

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I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars / they criticize me for it; but they all yell ‘holla! .”

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You know you’ve become a star because you’re the biggest target out there. When everyone’s on the court they’re coming for you. When the opposing players walk in to the arena, they’re thinking about upstaging you. You’re like a trophy to them.”

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You know, successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.”

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It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who never knew neither victory nor defeat…”

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Do we really need public Wi-Fi? For instance, I’m working at my lunch place right now. What if I called up a porn site? Would I get kicked out? Would I get arrested? Are laws in place? Shouldn’t there be? And what would possess anyone to go to Starbucks, then watch “The Big Bang Theory” on his laptop with headphones on? (And laugh repeatedly.) What’s the mindset there? This is my favorite show; I want to enjoy it while being surrounded by strangers who don’t know what I’m laughing at….”

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When I invested, I thought Mark was one in a million. Now I think Mark is maybe one in a trillion…”

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When that voice inside you speaks, and affirms that you can accomplish something that others say is impossible or crazy, you will be well served to listen and act on it…”

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When you become mentally convinced that you can make a comeback from any adversity, then all of your creative forces will come to your aid..”