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The Greatest Speech Ever – Will Smith’s Journey to Success · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It's very simple. This is what I believe, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth
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  Speaker 1: is the only thing that's ever going to be constant.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing that I see that is distinctly different
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  Speaker 2: about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill.
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  Speaker 2: You might have more talent than me, you might be
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  Speaker 2: smarter than me, But if we get on the treadmill together,
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  Speaker 2: there's two things.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting off first.
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  Speaker 2: Or I'm going to die.
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  Speaker 1: It's really that simple.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to outwork me. It's a very it's
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  Speaker 2: such a simple basic concept. The guy who is willing
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  Speaker 2: to hustle the most is going to be the guy
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  Speaker 2: that just gets that loose bomb.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he got to he got that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, he got to. Oh god, he hustling. Grabbed
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  Speaker 2: out with dad. It was going to be out of bounds,
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  Speaker 2: but he said it back then. It's like the commodity
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  Speaker 2: that I see. The majority of people who aren't getting
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  Speaker 2: the places they want or aren't achieving the things that
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  Speaker 2: they want in this business is strictly based on hustle.
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  Speaker 2: It's strictly based on being outwork is strictly based on
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  Speaker 2: missing crucial opportunities. I say all the time, if you
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  Speaker 2: stay ready, you ain't got.
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  Speaker 1: To get read. Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive
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  Speaker 1: god like feature that only the special among us will
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  Speaker 1: ever taste. You know, It's something that truly exists in
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  Speaker 1: all of us want to do good. I want the
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  Speaker 1: world to be better because I was here.
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  Speaker 4: I want my life, I want my work, my family.
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  Speaker 5: I want it to mean something, and it's like it has.
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  Speaker 5: If you are not making someone else's life better, then
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  Speaker 5: you're wasting your time. You know, like your life will
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  Speaker 5: become better by making other lives better.
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  Speaker 2: The first step before anybody else in the world believes
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  Speaker 2: it is you have to believe it. There's no reason
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  Speaker 2: to have a plan be because it distracts from plan AD.
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  Speaker 2: I realized that to have the level of success that
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  Speaker 2: I want to have, it's difficult to spread it out
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  Speaker 2: and do multiple things.
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  Speaker 4: It takes such a desperate, obsessive focus.
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  Speaker 2: You really got to focus with all of your fiber
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  Speaker 2: and all your heart, all your creativity. I've never really
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  Speaker 2: viewed myself as particularly talented.
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  Speaker 6: Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic. You know,
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  Speaker 6: while the other guy's sleeping, I'm working. While the other
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  Speaker 6: guy's eating, I'm working.
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  Speaker 2: The road to success is through commitment and through the
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  Speaker 2: strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard,
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  Speaker 2: and it is gonna get hard and you're gonna want
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  Speaker 2: to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you
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  Speaker 2: are and more who you want to be. Being realistic
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  Speaker 2: is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you be realistic?
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  Speaker 2: What's the point of being realistic. I'm gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's done. It's already done. The second I decided it's done,
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  Speaker 1: it's already done.
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  Speaker 4: It's now.
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  Speaker 1: We just got a way for y'all to say. I'm
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  Speaker 1: motivated by fear.
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  Speaker 6: Fear, you know, uh, fear of.
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  Speaker 1: That fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something.
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  Speaker 1: And I think what developed in my in my early
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  Speaker 1: days was the attitude that I started attacking things that
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  Speaker 1: I was scared of.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be an icon. I want to
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  Speaker 2: be an idea, you know. I want to represent an idea.
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  Speaker 2: I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic.
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  Speaker 2: Right that you're in a universe and two plus two
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  Speaker 2: equals four. Two plus two only equals four. If you
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  Speaker 2: accept the two plus two equals four two plus two
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be what I want it to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And there's a there's a like, there's a there's a
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  Speaker 2: redemptive power that making a choice has, you know, rather
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  Speaker 2: than feeling like you're at effect to all the things
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  Speaker 2: that are happening, make.
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  Speaker 1: A choice, like you just decide what.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be, who you're going to be, how
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do it. Just decide and then from
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  Speaker 2: that point the universe is going to get out your way.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's water. It wants to do, It wants
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  Speaker 3: to move and go around stuff, you know. So for me,
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  Speaker 3: I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent the
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  Speaker 3: idea that you really can make what you want.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, if they're going to be here, then
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  Speaker 4: if there's a necessity to make a difference.
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  Speaker 1: I feel very strongly that we are who we choose
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 7: As the child, my parents always told me you could
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  Speaker 7: be whatever you want to be, you could do whatever
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  Speaker 7: you want to do. And you know that that office,
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  Speaker 7: that position, the highest office on the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 7: It was something I heard my parents saying it, but
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  Speaker 7: I didn't totally believe it yet. I went out in
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  Speaker 7: the world and I carried myself and I held my
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  Speaker 7: head high, and I stood there and I look people
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  Speaker 7: in their eyes, and I talk to people as if
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  Speaker 7: I was deservant of everything that this planet has to offer.
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  Speaker 1: This one year off, I had his shop and he
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  Speaker 1: decided for whatever reason, that he wanted a new wall
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  Speaker 1: on the front of his shop. So he tore down
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  Speaker 1: probably about you know, sixteen feet high and probably about
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  Speaker 1: thirty feet long. He just completely toured the wall down,
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  Speaker 1: and my brother and I had to dig a six
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  Speaker 1: foot hole would mixing the concrete by hand.
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  Speaker 2: We were building this wall for a.
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  Speaker 8: Year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Every day after school we come of mix the concrete
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  Speaker 1: quick oh doing it. And it was just myself and
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  Speaker 1: my little brother, and I remember standing back looking at
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  Speaker 1: that wall, saying, there's gonna be a hole here forever.
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  Speaker 1: Year and a half later, we laid the final brick
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  Speaker 1: and my father stood back and he looked at me,
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  Speaker 1: and my brother said that don't y'all never tell me
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  Speaker 1: that you can't even do something, and walked into the shop.
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  Speaker 1: And I learned very young you don't try to build
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  Speaker 1: a wall. You don't set out to build a wall.
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  Speaker 1: You don't say I don't anything build the biggest, baddest,
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  Speaker 1: greatest wall that's ever been built. You don't start there.
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  Speaker 1: You say, I'm gonna lay this brick as perfectly as
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  Speaker 1: a brick can be laid. There will not be one
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  Speaker 1: brick on the face of the earth that's will be
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  Speaker 1: laid better than this brick than I'm going to lay
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  Speaker 1: in this next ten minutes. And you do that every
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  Speaker 1: single day, soon you have a war. And I think psychologically,
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  Speaker 1: the advantage that that gives me over a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that I have been in competition with in different
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  Speaker 1: situations is it's difficult to take the first step when
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  Speaker 1: you look how big the task. The task is never
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  Speaker 1: huge to me. We didn't grow up with the sense
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  Speaker 1: that where we were was where we were going to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know. We grew up with the sense that where
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  Speaker 1: we were almost didn't matter because we were becoming, we
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  Speaker 1: were becoming something greater.
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  Speaker 2: The greatest thing in my career has been the constant
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  Speaker 2: commitment to putting something in the world of value, not
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  Speaker 2: putting something in the world that makes me look hot,
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  Speaker 2: you know, though, I think as long as you can
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  Speaker 2: stay focused on delivering your art and delivering yourself and
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  Speaker 2: delivering your energy, and delivering your ideas.
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  Speaker 1: For the world to be better.
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  Speaker 2: Difference between depression and joy right, And I think.
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  Speaker 8: It's purpose right.
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  Speaker 9: It's like when you wake up in the morning and
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  Speaker 9: your life means something to somebody other than you, that
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  Speaker 9: you have a purpose. If you don't go do the
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  Speaker 9: things that you're going to do, people's lives will suffer.
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  Speaker 8: And I think that that kind of purpose that like
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  Speaker 8: to live in service not to you, but to live
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  Speaker 8: in service to humanity, to live in service to your family,
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  Speaker 8: to live in service to your church, to your city,
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  Speaker 8: to your country, to the world. Living in service is that.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that is the purest form of joy.
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  Speaker 4: The separation of talent and skill is one of the
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  Speaker 4: greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel,
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  Speaker 4: who have dreams that want to do things. Talent you
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  Speaker 4: have naturally, skill is only developed by hours and hours
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  Speaker 4: and hours of beaten on your craft.
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  Speaker 1: He who says he can and he who says he
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  Speaker 1: can't are both usually right.
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  Speaker 3: And I want you to keep in your heart just
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  Speaker 3: know that you can