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Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

Library School Lunch Spent
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It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Immortality Imagine Gone Kind
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Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Many Detractors Unsurprisingly Still
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Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

Trying Kill Different Cold
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

Subdued Winter Grip Harder
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Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

Universal Respected Genres Universal
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

Group Ground Broken Stopped
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As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

Sorry Missing Analog Playback
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Done Get Anticipation Life
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Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.
Cold Severe Humans Crafty
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When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Shooting Paid Set Worth
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Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

Mayor Hot Mess Term
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The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Hours Life Slow Down
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When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

Material Own Dilutes Mediocre
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If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right?

Slavery Happen Right Appear
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Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

Incredible Engine Close Exprience
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

Point Independent Real View
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America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

Killins American Cool When
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

Music Cure What Live
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Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

Care Solution Produce Results
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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

Identity Born Being Matter
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

Communicate Higher Practical Level
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

Conversations Distractions Unwanted Gravitate
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

Radically Living Results Law
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America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

Killed Attack Years Kurds
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Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

Able Achieve Front Try
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I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

Restless Remember Long Can
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When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.

Frisk Tactic Incitement White
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I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

Independent Music Good Path
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It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

Inspiring Classmate Name Medicating
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Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
Life Keep Having Young
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My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

Have Don't Unconditional Sure
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There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

Law Believe Protect Sworn
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I think law is very challenging, it develops your analytical mind and that is something that really helps me in my day to day life.

Life Help Develop Law
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If you are passionate about something or if you enjoy doing something you won’t get tired of it.

Tired Passionate Enjoy Doing
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My music is typically hip-hop, but with a contemporary twist. I always infuse traditional Nigerian sounds and modernize them.

Music Twist Infuse Sound
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It is impossible to live somewhere and not draw inspiration from the environment around us.

Around Draw Live Impossible
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Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.

Family Blood Love You
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If someone's child is doing something wrong, they will not sugarcoat it; they would try to say it in a way that helps them realize what they are doing is not right.

Child Someone Right Sugarcoat
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I am known for comedy, so I want to produce a psychological thriller, something challenging.

Comedy Produce Thriller Known
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I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

King Kids Prince Fools
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

You Never Underestimate Power
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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Success Worry Damn Money
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Everyone is carried away with our entertainment and enjoyment of life and we forget that a lot of things are really happening here…

Forget Everybody Carried Enjoyment
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There are a lot of things that we need to constantly talk about so that somehow there should be a recognition of this… People feel that the Fela Kuti’s spirit needs to come back.

People Constantly Talk Feel
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It’s a democratic system of government, it’s government of the people.

System People Government Democratic
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So, if people don’t actually go out there to vote, we’re still going to be stuck in the same mess that we complain about.

Complain Mess Actually Stuck
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Don't let anyone force you to endorse their system until you are sure it represents you.
Force Endorse System Sure
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It’s all work and no play.

Sleeping Age Play Work
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Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

Success Shoot Seems Impossible
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