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There's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

— Jim Carrey A Touch of Class (2003)

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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go "Oh, man — is that happy guy still out there?

Jim Carrey's Unnatural Act (1991)

We have to say yes to socialism — to the word and everything [...] Medicare for all, ending student debt, a different approach to the war on terror, ending mass incarceration.

Communication, hardest thing in the world.

Jim Carrey's Unnatural Act (1991)

I like people. They're entertaining. I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.

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