"What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?"
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"Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I dont know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better."
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"I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect."
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"I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman."
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"Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though."
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"I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too."
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"Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high."
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"I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody."
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"My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that."
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"When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse."
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"I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw."
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"I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready."
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"It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be."
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"I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself."
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"I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me"."
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"I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this."
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"How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?"
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"You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves."
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"I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place."
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"When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me."
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