"I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist."
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"I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does."
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"I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me."
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"No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all."
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"The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does."
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"Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better."
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"I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show"
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"I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written"
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"Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into."
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"If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons."
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"Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing."
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"Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place."
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"If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it."
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"My talent matters more to me than the money does."
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"Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books."
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"Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it."
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"But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist."
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"Yeah, I get a death scene, but what does that mean?"
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"Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it."
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"The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?"
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