"I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy."
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"Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different."
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"Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late."
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"There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."
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"My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions."
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"What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language."
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"I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane."
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"One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor."
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"By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape."
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"I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it."
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"If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish."
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"Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me."
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"Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace."
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"Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents."
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"No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward."
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"I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past."
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"I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn’t remember it."
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"I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments."
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"Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot."
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"Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly."
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