"To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time."
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"I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something."
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"The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib."
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"Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about."
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"The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited."
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"If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible."
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"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play."
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"I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get."
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"I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me."
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"Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are."
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"I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe."
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"If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change."
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"About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws"
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"I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade."
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"Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you to get jobs. It makes a dramatic difference. It generates a social equity that we need."
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"If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy"
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"The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying."
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"I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing."
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"Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment."
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"I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus."
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