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"The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with - in the face of preposterous, unworkable, and evil code of so-called 'Morals.' Most of us know the code is wrong, almost everybody breaks it. But we pay Danegeld by feeling guilty and giving lip service. Willy-nilly, the code rides us, dead and stinking, an albatross around the neck."
"An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall."
"I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced."
"I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every 100,000 Twitter followers because I am just looking for ways to get my fans to hear all this music without over saturating things."
"What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things."
"My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit."
"I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud."
"There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart"
"I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!"
"I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me"
"I study history in order to give an interpretation."
"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take."
"I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'"
"Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain."
"The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable."
"It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed."
"Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose."
"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."
"The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him."
"Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power."
