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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Am Drunken Glorious I Am
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I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Able Almost Am Any
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Accident Am Beethoven Birth
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Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Acquainted Be The First Became Began
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I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Am Another Begun Engaged
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When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Account Am Cannot Distance
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Armstrong Because Came Dad
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

About Also Calling Central
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Always keep your eyes on the ball amidst all distractions!

Always Keep Your eyes Ball
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

Am Away Come Control
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Am Around Ease Feel
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

When Am Aware Doing
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When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

Another Away Back Came
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Change Changes Does Essence
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I’ve enjoyed meeting these refreshing young Africans who make me believe for sure that the Africa of our dreams is possible.

Enjoyed meeting Refreshing young Believe Sure
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Masculinity is not fragile. Masculinity is not toxic. It’s not fundamentally pillaging. It’s not fundamentally rape culture and exploitation. I like the masculine spirit. It is necessary. Dear men & boys, may we continue to show up in excellence and be our best selves.

Masculinity Fragile Fundamentally pillaging
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When things are not working out as well for me, I look inwards first, before blaming the world.

When things Working out Well Inwards first
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No road is long with good company. No ambition is too big with the requisite support. Associate yourself with wise people of good quality.

No road Good company No ambition Too big
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The hopes, dreams and aspirations of our nation and continent rests on you! God has equipped you with special abilities that can enable you scale over any mountain. Although our problems are numerous, I still believe there is hope for Africa!

Hopes Dreams Aspirations Our nations
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Never stop dreaming big. Never stop challenging the status quo. You have what it takes to do great things. Discipline yourself and develop a new African mindset. A mindset that doesn't feel inferior and is never afraid to confront, tackle and overcome challenges.

Dreaming Never stop Great things Discipline
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Any Apart Fame Gods
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Ashamed Know Parliament
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Alive Amen Humbly Instead
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Am Boy Estate Girl
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I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Big Come Family ILove
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My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.

Always Autograph Back Bill
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I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

Am Amnesty Course Everyone
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Actor Amazing Contribution Directors
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I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Am Famous Hugely Material
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I enjoy nakedness. I am a bit of a naturist at heart.

Am Bit Enjoy Heart
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I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

Actor Always Become Famous
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You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

Am Hear Hits IAm
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I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.
Am Bad Good IAm
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts

Nothing Education Astonishing Ignorance
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I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

Actor Before Being Eye
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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

About America Black Did
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Chaos Law Nature Dream
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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Always Am Any Because
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics Unsatisfactory game
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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
Always American Civil Full
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I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Allowed Breadth Flaws Know
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I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

Compelled Damaged How Know
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Written Much history Faith Wrong
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My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Adored Family Fascination Me
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Arms Better BetterWay Example
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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

About Besides Conservative Constitution
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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

20thCentury Came Century Eisenhower
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

About Anything Anytime Away
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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