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so what do you think you'll do how are you going to spend your life I'm not [Laughter]
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so what do you think you'll do how are you going to spend your life I'm not [Laughter]
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sure but I do [Music] know I'm going to live every minute of
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[Laughter] it which way does a tree fall uh
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down a tree falls the way it leans be careful which way you lean no being crazy is hard you're
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getting all hung up all hung up on imaginary problems you got to focus on what's real man you see this cup this is literally
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my favorite cup now it's gone forever so it's not real and I don't care about it anymore listen Morty I hate to break it to you but what people call love it's just a
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chemical reaction that compels animals to breed it hits hard Morty then it slowly Fades leaving you stranded in a failing marriage I did it your parents
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are going to do it break the cycle Morty rise above focus on science is he still crying about the coffee girl if I have to listen to this song One More Time
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morai this is your boss open up I'm taking a mental health day you don't have the right to be sad
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you never even had the guts to tell Margaret how you feel listen if you leave things the way they are now you'll regret it for the rest of your life
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telling her might not change anything but at least you'll have closure you should just tell Margaret how you feel
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you're right thanks giips what whatever looks like the winds are changing ah
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change is good yeah but it's not easy I know what I have to do but going back means I'll have to face my
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past I've been running from it for so long ow jeez what was that for it doesn't matter it's in the
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past yeah but it still hurts oh yes the past can't hurt the secret ingredient
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is nothing huh you heard me nothing there is no secret ingredient to make
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something special you just have to believe it's special there is no secret ingredient these days they got a name for just about
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everything doesn't matter what they call you it's the Deeds make the man yeah but my Deeds just made things worse I'm a
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fraud I'm a phony my friends believed in me but they need some kind of hero then be a hero oh no no no I you don't
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understand I'm not even supposed to be here that's right you came a long way to find something that isn't out here don't you see it's not about
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you it's about them
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but I can't go back don't know that you got a choice [Music]
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son no man can walk out on his own
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story if I have to I will spend every day of the rest of my life hunting the Avatar I know it's my destiny to capture
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him you know Prin Zuko Destiny is a funny thing you never know how things are going to work out but if you keep an
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open mind and an open heart I promise you will find your own destiny someday I
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know my own destiny uncle is it your own destiny or is it a destiny someone else has tried to force on you stop it Uncle
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I have to do this I'm begging you Prince too it's time for you to look Inward and
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begin asking yourself the big questions who are you and what do you want huh you
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think I could stretch out everything you're so naive to live life you need problems that's stupid if you get
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everything you want the minute you want it what's the point of living quit don't quit noodles don't noodles
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you are too concerned with what was and what will be there a saying yesterday is
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history tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift that is why it is called the
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present you know sometimes your mind plays tricks on you it can tell you you're no good that
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it's all hopeless but I've discovered this you are
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loved and important and you bring to this world things that no one else can so hold
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on but you still have to go why son we all have to do things we don't want to like have jobs and families and
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responsibil and having to be Mr Funny all the time you think I wouldn't rather be living nude in the forest like some ancient Pagan just dancing around
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playing the Pan Flute listen man you may have given up on yourself but your friends haven't given up on
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you are you just going to turn your back on them and sit and eat borch the rest of your life or are you going to get out
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there and jump through that tiny little hoop it is impossible
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it was always impossible to tell him that's why the people loved it mostly because I thought I never
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could how how do you become someone that great that brave that
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selfless I guess you can only try your story may not have such a happy beginning
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but that doesn't make you who you are it is the rest of your
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story who you choose to be Dad are you going to get us a new
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mom I don't want another your mom was the only woman for me she was the love of my
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[Music] life but with love comes loss son it's part of the deal sometimes it
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hurts but in the end it's all worth it there's no greater gift than
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love but how how I need your help Master no you just need to
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believe promise me Shifu promise me you will will
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believe I I will try good hey can you tell my future from these Stars well the Stars don't tell
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the future donkey they tell stories no you listen to me James Hawkins you got
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the making of greatness in you but you got to take the HM and charge your own course stick to it no matter the squals
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and when the time comes you get the chance to really test a cut of your sales and show What You're Made Of well
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I hope I'm there catching some of the light coming off you that
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day hey what's your problem shck what you got against the whole world anyway huh look I'm not the one with a problem okay it's the world that seems to have a
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problem with me people take one look at me and go ah help run a big stupid ugly ogre they judge me before they even know
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me that's why I'm better off
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[Music] alone each of us lives dependent and bound by our individual knowledge and our
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awareness all that is what we call reality however both knowledge and
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awareness are equivocal one's reality might be another's illusion we all live inside our own
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fantasies don't you think that's true the key in life is to lie to yourself about reality smile through everything all the bad things why you just pile
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them away in a place that will come back one day in the form of I don't know
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rage but everything's fine I'll see you in bed usually when people ask how I'm doing the real answer is I'm doing shitty but I can't say I'm doing shitty
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because I don't even have a good reason to be doing shitty so if I say I'm doing shitty then they say why what's wrong and I have to be like I don't know all of it so instead when people ask how I'm
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doing I usually say I am doing so great it's not for the fental heart you must be imaginative strarted you must try
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things that may not work and you must not let anyone Define your limits because of where you come from your only limit is your soul what I say is true
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anyone can cook but only the Fearless can would be great how I feel about school Jerry it's a waste of time bunch
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of people running around bumping into each other guy up fronts say two plus two the people in the back say four then the Bell Rings they give you a carton of milk and a piece of paper that says you
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can go take a dump or something I mean it's not a place for smart people [Music]
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Jerry there you
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go believe with every step [Music] oh
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yeah you got me right I still got you woo Ian light foot is
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[Applause] fearless this is [Music]
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amazing yeah but just keep going nothing is impossible one often meets his distance
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on the road he takes to avoid it we have to do something we can't just let him march on the valley and take his revenge he'll he'll your mind is like this water
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my friend when it is agitated it becomes difficult to see but if you allow it to
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settle the answer becomes clear how did you find peace I took away your parents
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everything I I scarred you for life see that's the the thing Shen scars heal no
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they don't wounds heal oh yeah what do scars do they fade I guess I don't care
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what scars do you should Shen you got to let go of that stuff from the past cuz it just doesn't matter the only thing
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that matters is what you choose to be now you're right I let her
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go yes yes splend you what how could you do that I had to
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yes but but but why because I love her you have forgotten
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who you are and so forgotten me look inside yourself simma you are more than what you have
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become you must take your place in the circle of life how can I go back I'm not
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who I used to to be remember who you
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are you are my son and the one true king remember who you
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are no please don't leave me Father don't leave
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me Larry what do you think the meaning of life is H work it's important to be useful look at me I got it all figured
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out I get up I shower I come to work I work all day I go home I go to sleep I get up I shower I come to work I work all day I go home I go to sleep I get up
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I shower I come to work uh what's the matter H not a thing in the world yeah I wish I could say the
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same Mo this is a great thing for you you went from sitting on the side lines to get in the game sometime when you
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least expect it you realize that someone l loved you and that means someone can love you again that'll make you
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smile quazi take it from an old spectator life's not a spectator sport if watching is all you're going to do then you're going to watch your life go
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by without you you came early into this world it
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were such a wee thing oh so frail so
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fragile I feared you wouldn't make it but your
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father he never doubted he always said you'd become the strongest of them
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all and he was right you have the heart of a chief and the soul of a
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dragon only you can bring our worlds together that is who you are
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son wake up to real reality nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world the longer you live the more you
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will realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain suffering and
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futility listen everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as
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well as long as there is a concept of Victors the vanquished will also exist the selfish intent of wanting to
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preserve peace initiates Wars and hatred is born in order to protect love there are nexuses causal relationships that
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cannot be separated rise young Warrior you must get up your journey is not
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over I can't fight him he has all my weapons I have nothing when you began your journey you were determined nothing
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could stop you and now that you are so close are you willing to give up so easily it was easier at the beginning
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Beginnings are often easier but think of all that you have accomplished along your journey what you have learned from your battles with a bear the Snake the
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Monkey what's the point of fighting my way up the mountain when someone else is just going to come up the easy way there is always going to be someone who does
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things the easy way but that should not stop you from doing things the right right way it is your journey young
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Warrior only you decide when it ends yeah well sounds like you sad listen Finn girls is like horses when you fall
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down it's important that you get right back on again on a different horse and there's a lot of fish in the sea a lot
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of fish Penny saved is a penny earned yeah what would Uncle do Zuko you have
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to look within yourself to see yourself from your other self only then will your
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true self reveal
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itself even when I'm talking for him I can't figure out what he means it's you got to put your past behind you look kid bad things happen and you can't do
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anything about it right right wrong When The World Turns its back on you you turn your back on the world you and I are
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both seeking the very SA thing we both want to achieve the peace that Jah sini that there's entirely too much hate in
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this Shinobi world of ours there's too much hate I've always wanted to do something about all of this hatred I'm
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just not quite sure how to go about it as of yet but I truly believe that eventually the day will come when all people will understand one another and
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live in harmony boy it sounds kind of complicated to me and if I can't find the solution to this problem then perhaps I'll entrust you to find it
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instead hey Naruto yes sir
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