"I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be."
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"I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand."
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"Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand."
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"I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power."
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"A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me."
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"My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times."
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"In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon."
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"if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right."
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"Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets."
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"Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches."
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"Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it."
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"Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon."
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"The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out."
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"It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake."
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"One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy."
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"Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand."
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"It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots."
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"Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?"
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"Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience."
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"Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people."
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