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"I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship."
"If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot."
"If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect."
"When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp."
"An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things."
"I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too."
"While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave."
"In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income."
"I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out.""
"I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, "Music sucks now!" I'll go, "I don't think so. Not over at my house.""
"What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway."
"I don't hate people - not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind of see more and more why people do what they do."
"Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get."
"I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. But that's how we are. That's what happens when you put people together and put them into societies and cultures and have laws and the idea of justice."
"All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are."
"I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them."
"I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did."
"As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone."
"Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts."
"I've never been in a situation where I had to run for my life, but I've been bitten by a lot of poisonous snakes where it was fairly painful. Pythons of size have a lot of teeth in that mouth, it's a painful bite and those wounds get infected fairly easily. I've got snake wounds from these animals that have lasted quite a while where it'll ache for several days. Having said that, I've been lucky; it's not like I'm looking for trouble with these animals either. It's not an envelope I'm willing to push."