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Jay-Z - Belief in Yourself Is the Foundation of Greatness | Motivational Speech · Motivate Me; Inspirational Speeches

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  [SPEAKER_02]: belief in oneself, and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation of everything great.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You gotta take the money, what I'm gonna say.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So I wouldn't tell you to cut a bad deal, like take the file a thousand, go buy some albums, listen to the albums, there's all there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If you piece of the given, really listen to the music for the words of what it is, it's all there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Everything that I said was gonna happen.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: happen and everything that I said I wanted to do, I've done.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: And there's the blueprint.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The blueprint literally to me and my life and my journey is, it's day already.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you pay attention and you actually keep whatever information is coming in front of you, the futures with value, but the things that you do here, the value, but if you make it to a business to keep it, even as you have to write it down, so you have to say it to yourself or whatever and you just keep
• 0:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: A lot to it until it becomes a part of you and the way you actually will express yourself at different points and then you develop a more advanced presentation.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: And what I was saying like, I don't think people realize that we just sit around all the time and like can you believe this shit fucking live can't believe this shit that I've been able to do.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: just to end the place where we're from and where we come from.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Like everyone has that story, right?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We all from tough locations and that's just the way to where I was set up.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But just like the things that we were able to overcome and where we sit now today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Even you see the guys burning and still making big business transactions because it's how he got to the position that he's in now, he didn't change his person.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So he's going to pursue more until there's like no more to get.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then the object is to have to put the money back.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When you get to the top of the board, you have to put the money back.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So everybody else can function in it because it's not going to change anything in your life anyway at that point.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, and as far as like, you know, success, I just look at it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Like all the people that I was inspired by like Muhammad Ali was like, he gave me my vibrato.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I'm like, people see that I have total belief in myself.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Not because it becomes in the place of like arrogance and just this pompousness.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just like, I felt proud.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna place it in a time when we all become were being called ugly.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: When Mom and I were like, I'm so pretty.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm the greatest and like people paid to see him lose.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's when we was drawing his fights.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Like people coming in and seeing him lose because he was so confident in his ability and not again, not from a place of arrogance because he didn't know he put the work in.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: One, and two, he left us all up.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So...
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I hope that at the end of this journey, however it ends out, like, I represent that as well.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like, even that, if you look back to reason with down this, like, even the songs that were, like, more bragged emotions, and I'll fan about money, and really more so directed at, like, the system, America.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You put us in these situations, and you're handcuffed to... And you put it behind our back, and we still made a way.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We still, you guys, took the music, took the drums, we beat on the table.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You made black face, we create a soul music.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You gave a scrap, we made soul food.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Like everything that was presented to us, we made away.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So even in no songs, it's like, almost like, like, like a.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, like a peacock, like spread in his wings, like, you know, we made it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Like, so the transition has happened, you know, because with more information that you get you, you evolve.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's true.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But even even when my first album came out in 2006, so politics is usual and no songs really dealt with regrets on the last song or my first album, you know, those are real topics, the evils, you know, just talking out, you know, the relationship and how money can come
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, we, we haven't had money for a long time, so we don't know how to, we not profession is that navigate in how to communicate from that space, right?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Some people have in the vault past 16.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They're still stuck in that place, but you involve in every year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So that may be a threat to them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sub-consciously, all-consciously, cousin then your grandma's liberal, I'm saying, you know, man, I got this play, I want to, you just give me, you know what I mean?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: For the honey, I could make you two million, you like, you don't work like that, man.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You got to explain to him, like, life isn't like that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Money isn't free, and no one's given our opportunity.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The best sounds too good to be true is really, and then he like,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll believe in my journey.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We think we got it all right here's not hard here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You'll see how people fight to come across the border.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They want to be here for them.
• 4:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: You see what I'm saying like if you go and look when you get to those other territories, when they're lower level, their poverty is more extreme than ours.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You see what I'm saying and we got some people there have just decided not to try.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're more comfortable and they tend but nothing on their schedule every day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's some of them make the decision to just get the tent and feel no pressure to make it or no pressure to do anything.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's just the, I don't, I can't comprehend the thinking, like, you know, my thought process is so different from when I can't relate to it, but it's real.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That is the disciplines that for the average person so they understand the metaphors, try to try to treadmill with no music.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: See how long you do that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because you'll be in your head so much, and you hate yourself even.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You ain't going to do it as long as you usually do it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When you can put the music on and just go, take your mind off of it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can do the work a lot easier.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When you don't have a person to compete with, you need to make that person.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It'll help you work when you tie it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, point to someone who does something well, and you go, all right, that's why I'm competing.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you don't got to know this one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to know the final.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's most sophisticated if you don't know the final.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: But you know, he's a great photographer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's good at what he's doing or whatever it is.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it makes you push yourself to the next level to find something new.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And a cinematographer has different things there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That you want to make some great, 90 likes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I should have lighted fire under you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You see something new come out from an em, and like, hold it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He dropped that way to see what I'm talking about this out.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's like Jordan always blasts and took it personal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is what made him great.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He said I'm saying it's like, when someone's just going on in him that the rest of them don't have, like they're playing the game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And he, I got a win.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He said I have to win this ring.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And who did these guys as well as the...
• 6:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've seen it, it's almost, I think it feels, it could be mistaken for a gangsta religion.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That went in a person's life, it's just driven and it's like, whenever a person's extremely focused, they don't deserve this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you want play stupid, be stupid, stay stupid, stay broke.
• 6:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying, that's my motto, you understand what I'm saying for me?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna take it in, I'm gonna go everything that's going on, and get what I can get.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, it's good for this shit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta be smart enough to beat up the information that you got.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the crazy shit is niggas that look like you're doing some, what, what do you want?
• 7:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you look fine, niggas that can tell you that I own some.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One niggas, one niggas that can say, you're not niggas that fit the only stuff, or you're my mom, I'll give them whatever you say I own, but because I can't remember niggas doing nothing for me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now if I could see you crazy, you need to call me crazy not be single when they say that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Please say I'm crazy, I've been thinking the up.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was crazy enough to believe what the fuck I was saying I had was gonna happen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I was persistent enough with the system and up to exist this net.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Going up, saying so.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They don't want y'all to check it out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna be reading 48 loads of power around the grain.
• 7:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now you're gonna read the 50th law cause I don't got what probably I've been reading to create the new shit for you to read.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nigger?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sound Sammy, I need more.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Man, play with me that shit out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't do shit, I just use a war.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The hardest to duck shit, come on.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All that shit come from the hood, be it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a parallel between corporate America and the hood.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's obvious, you see me winning, don't you?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I fucking owe the time this is looking like, you know what, he took a page on a mob book.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But they make all of that fucking money off it that I made off it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So would that make me, I make me a better version of them, maybe?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The old school niggas, and we checked out, man, it's amazing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Telling magazine, fuck me, darned even all that shit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For real, you can already see niggas just trying to reput through the floor, you think?
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I had 10 breaks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Remember how I had to, I thought you'll go, why I still know?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now I want to hear that shit, tell me that shit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm saying now, and this is the point right here, we're up.
• 8:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I was sitting on the wall, I had it, you know, don't got it no more.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Really, I think the book's just there, in order to make niggas remember that shit because they ain't ready to do that shit, they didn't now.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You see that I'm saying, so now they want to work black on that shit so they can make the young boys, but they didn't that hard on that serious, so they put it in like that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then they get the young boys to do anything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ain't fucking doing nothing.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: So explain me, like when I'm coming up, niggas is like, oh, who won up?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And who will he wait?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think the most important lesson for me would be just be true to yourself.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it sounds like a very simple thing to do.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But it's not simple to deal with all the pressures, to succeed, and all the pressures to once you succeed, to stay there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You have a belief in yourself, and sometimes in most cases, it's a naïve to take.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: About who you are and what you can contribute to the game.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to find that truth and trying to tap into something really important, as well as have fun.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not always like, you know, it's responsibility of trying to be great every second.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I just want to be silly.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I want to be wrong.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I want to be provocative, you know, 99 problems, you know, I want to push buttons.