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Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
William Shatner
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William Shatner
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 22
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Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!
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I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.
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Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
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I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
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I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.
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Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
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