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I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Spilled Cruelty Necessary Disharmony
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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Woman Creativity Destroy Judge
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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Job Easy People Great
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So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Weird Standing Real Life
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Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Money Love Enough Losing
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It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Smart Hire Sense People
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I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Mirror Morning Today Answer
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Focus Simplicity Complex Worth
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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Travel Backpack Bunch Clif
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Life People Influence Build
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Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

Clean Body Sharp Mind
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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

What Does Matter Fate
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Truth Sometimes Feels Hurts
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I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Highway Stumps Year Wonder
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And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

Laugh Happens Myself Screw
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I love to go on stage and sing.

Love Stage Sing Go
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Burn Special Better Smell
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Problem Solution Elegant Layers
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War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

War Pathetically Times Small
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I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

Want World GO Learn
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I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Literate Healthy Peaceful Planet
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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

Focus Appearance Surprised Me
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I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Playboy Face Hair Like
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You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.

Start Customer Experience Sell
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Destruction Education Ever Invented
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Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Earthly Judge Right Right And Wrong
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Really Need Stand Room
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There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

Way Forgiven Village Bunch
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Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Anyone Blue Fields Green
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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

Change Feel Best Have
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I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Angry Stuff Band Wail
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Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products. Instead, enrich lives.
Customer Happy Product Enrich
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And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Mail Hate Misspelled Unsigned
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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Strategy Product Follow People
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I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

Entrepreneur Launch Cash Business
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I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

California Canned Filled Office
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You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Customer Ask Want Time
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And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

Choose Life Worth Better
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To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.

Working Game Changer Confidence
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I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Prone Error Humans Upgrade
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can’t switch gears. It’s a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they’re the same thing.

Weakness Strength Subtle Situation
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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

After Join Band Flag
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The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

Curiosity Important Feed Incite
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

Europe Performing Have Festival
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

Realization Capable Good Exactly
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Enough Oxygen Stuck Walking
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I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

Innovation Technology Century Era
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I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do.

Young Travel Countries Often
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