"You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser."
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"You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded."
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"Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?"
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"A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on."
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"When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff."
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"Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's some bumpy roads on the road," or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, "Damn, you did that?""
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"I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself."
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"All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe"
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"We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people."
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"Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it."
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"Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right"
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"I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere."
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"We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors."
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"People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing."
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"When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome."
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"As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative."
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"I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad."
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"What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc."
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"People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God."
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"Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it."
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