"Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time."
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"Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first."
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"Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off."
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"Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant."
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"There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it."
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"I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships."
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"But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music."
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"It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid."
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"I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me."
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"I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working musician. I didn't want to be Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark, but I wanted to play in front of their audiences, you know what I mean?"
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"Let's just say I know a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy."
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"I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy."
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"I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference."
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"I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something."
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"It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome."
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"The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy."
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"You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail."
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"The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul."
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"For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least."
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"You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time."
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