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Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

Basically Dying Feel Fortunate
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

Because I Can Lennon McCartney
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I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.

Catchy Here However Just
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I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.

Bass Bass Player Beatles Best
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I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

Flow Flowers Grow Home
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Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

Cannot Else Everything Everything Else
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In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

Being Consciousness Enables End
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Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

All-Around Although Around Funny
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Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

Arriving Chained Chains Free
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Afterlife Contradiction Here Hoped
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Flying Ground Knack Learning
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Beautiful Believe Bottom Enough
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Common Complete People Design
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Impossible Improbable Integrity Kind
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Cry Fact Hitherto Indeed
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Wrong. Repair Impossible Between
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Angry Bad Beginning Created
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Deadlines Fly Like Love
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Account Allowed Anyone Capable
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Fish Judge Nice Rain
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Bird Consider Duck Family
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If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Mirror Out Pictures Presumably
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Solve Major Mistake Potatoes
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Definitive Frequently Guide Inaccurate
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Begun Mind Possibility Crossing
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Cope Normality Own Problem
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Add Bought Give Integrity
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Ability Almost Apparent Beings
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

After Continue Happen Happened
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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Believe Prove Still
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Bizarre Disappear Universe Discovers
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Flying Ground Learning Miss
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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

Artistic Down Going High
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The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
About Great Great Thing Like
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I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.
Artistic Been Interested Life
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An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Actor Agent Because Gets
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Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

Everyone Me Nice Saying
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And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

Admit Doctor Frightened Frustrated
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I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

Buy End Get Money
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I'm a very wealthy man.

Man Very A Wealthy
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I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

Away Day Day-To-Day Life
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I've got a great collection of photography.
Collection Got Great Photography
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The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Able Being Being Blessed Blessed
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And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.

After Business Business Side Life
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And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Afraid Age Count Day
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Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

Beginning Big Break Carolina
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I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
Buddies Death Great Him
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I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

Britney Britney Spears Cute Fun
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And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Agreed Anyway Because Change
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Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

Battling Britain Fair Fair Share
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