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Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.
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Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
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Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
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Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.
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Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
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Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here?
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
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Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.
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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
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Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3 -
Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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