"Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it."
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"I like to hit it downhill, thats the way I was taught to run."
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"Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out."
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"Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten."
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"If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn't our genetic purpose-to transmit DNA-be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?"
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"That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out - so far out you can't follow them all the way to the end."
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"Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me."
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"Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives."
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"The world is full of ways and means to waste time."
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"What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere."
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"It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book."
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"In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster."
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"There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order."
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"The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible."
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"I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily."
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"Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child"
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"Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment."
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"Everyone's gotta make their own way."
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"The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time."
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"Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct."
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