You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be.

Martin Sheen
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You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are.

Or who you’re meant to be. In this quote, the author is telling the audience that they have a choice in what they do with their lives. The author is telling the audience that what they want to be when they grow up depends on them and not on anyone else.

The author is telling the audience that they need to make a choice and then go out and make that choice happen in their lives.

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