“Planning to make something big is like planning to make a Nobel Prize winner during sex. You just have to wait and see.”

—  Tay Zonday

Comment by "real_tayzonday" http://www.reddit.com/r/recordthis/comments/1i3vgd/requestmale_could_somebody_please_speak_this/cb2kkya on reddit, 14 July 2013.

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