"Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?"
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"I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace."
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"I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that."
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"What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution."
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"When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3."
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"Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people.""
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"I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day."
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"What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound."
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"You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues."
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"My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too."
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"Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property."
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"You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff."
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"When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude."
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"I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit."
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"I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another."
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"A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo."
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"There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at."
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"I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet."
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"I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends."
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"Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?"
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