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The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

Passive Capacity Intuition Intellect
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Between Human Qualities Little
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality.

Power Rest Turn Moral
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Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

Judge Propose Man Day
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Pretend Understand World Intellect
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As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Change Begin Single Individual
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You can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

Angry Person Measure Size
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One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Reason Bird Impress Other
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Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.

Always Say Known Listen
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I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy.

Group Black Every Should
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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

Cool Long Around Love
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My wife asked me once if I weren’t a comedian what I would do. I couldn’t answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

Answer Wife Anything Comedian
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Admire Bright Intelligent Life
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Band Behind Dad Get
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Album Allowed Got Guy
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Arts Back Felt Just
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

Approach Artist Back Being
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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Denial Image Korean Many
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I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Apart Big Important Instance
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Anything Colour Expression Like
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Absence Absolute Challenging Confront
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Advantage Again Become Better
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Acceptable Access Age Certain
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Any Artifice Artist Believe
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I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Able About Always Anything
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I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

Because Best Doing Else
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Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Always Art Been Change
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

Agent Awe Behind Believe
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Aging Belief Between Biology
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Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
Love Need Reason Heart
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We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Soul Realm Calm Still
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The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

Opportunity Level Problem Highest
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I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn’t the truth; it’s what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Afraid Truth Order Pain
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You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Positive Choice Rest Life
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Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Melody Nerves Triggers Body
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Freedom Shadow Death Mountaintop
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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Fear Happiness Resources Poor
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Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

Important Last Long Lyrics
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Persuade People Idea Wise
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Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

Also Aside Dancer Dancing
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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

Control Attitude Toward Happens
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I never thought a career as a musician was possible.
Career Musician Never Possible
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I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

Always Been Decided Gonna
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I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Actually Again Always Bored
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Women Progress Community Progress
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“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

Parent Children Greatest Blessings
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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

Christ Cross Died God
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God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

God Hand Give Receive
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Science Higher Been Source
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Passion Energy Focus Excite
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