"People who say the system works work for the system."
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"I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga."
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"No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you."
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"We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy."
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"I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian."
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"People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth."
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"And I don't think we should be continuing to propagate the idea that famous people are magical or special because it makes people feel like their lives ain't no good."
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"Nigel Farage and Sean Hannity is like a super group of idiots."
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"I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection."
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"Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident."
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"See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest."
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"I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us."
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"You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!"
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"I think what's actually happened is print media is becoming obsolete, and this is like the floundering corpse of a dying media. It is just twitching."
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"It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook."
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"Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut!"
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"Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution."
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"Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one."
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"Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?"
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"When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person."
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