"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."
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"I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts."
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"I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine."
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"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."
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"Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results."
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"I think you can't write with anger. I think it always has to be with a wink. There always has to be an element of hope in what you write. Otherwise you're just getting mad and it's not going to be fun for anybody."
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"I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant."
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"And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"
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"We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me."
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"Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute."
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"He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that."
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"I think I'm like Marmite; you either love me or you hate me."
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"I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do."
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"Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves."
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"True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy."
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"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they."
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"What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?"
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"It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are."
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"I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected."
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"... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing."
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