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I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

Jim Carrey

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Jim Carrey
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 17
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Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.
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I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
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I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
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I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
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I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
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Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
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Come back here so that I may brain thee!
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I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.
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