“Be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become. Most of you won't be successful because when you're studying and you get tired, you quit. 'I don't do well in math.' That's right, because you never study. 'I'm not good at writing.' Because you've never written before!”
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“If you don't have no respect for yourself right now, you will never have none. At all.”
“You gonna be the greatest of all time.”
“I puts this whole thing together, as now everybody seems to know better than me”
“Never take anything from anybody for free.”