"Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed."
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"He though does not always have faith."
"Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later."
"Time does not pass, it merely changes."
"Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure."
"Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline."
"The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?"
"Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations."
"I have photo shoots or commercials that I do, or things in India. It's usually a seven-day week for me. So physically it does get exhausting."
"There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy."
"Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work."
"Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones."
"One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms."
"Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?"
"God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much."
"I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?"
"It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want."
"Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg."
"He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred."
"No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained."