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There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

— Jim Carrey Major in Success (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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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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