"Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom."
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"I think the biggest lesson that I've learned is that no one owes you anything. It doesn't matter if you've worked with this person, or you have a piece of work that you think is great. It doesn't mean they're going to agree with you and give you money to do it."
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"Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble."
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"I just had a responsibility to [Taylor Swift] as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it."
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"It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it."
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"By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many."
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"There is a streetlight in front of Soo Yeon's house. From there to home, it takes 280 steps. If we have been walking away from each other for 14 years, how many steps will it take to get back? If she doesn't come even if I wait, that doesn't mean that she abandoned me.. it means she is on her way."
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"You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal."
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"Lack is more in means, than in principles."
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"On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on."
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"I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place."
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"The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence."
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"Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means."
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"Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good."
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"Waiting on God means increasing purity."
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"The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work."
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"Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many."
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"Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts."
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"Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out."
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"Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth."
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