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As always, whenever I'm contacted by the White House, I'm just humbled.

Always House Humbled Just
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'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did in two years; they're gonna tell me today.

Because Classic Did Everyone
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When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.
America Go Japan Make
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I definitely think that my vibe has rubbed off on Drake a bit.

Bit Definitely Drake Off
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In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.

Clothes Cool Cool Guy Felt
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I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.

Accent Again America Blocking
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Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

Biggest Bullied Bullies Bullying
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I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.

Acting Acting School Anything Been
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I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.
Correctly I Think Idea Inception
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I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

About Beats Different Making
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I've been trying to do this music stuff and work it out for so long... I was like, 'Let's do it for ourselves.' All these songs, we've travelled the world - no record label, nothing. We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.

Appreciated Been Did Just
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I was working so hard at music and trying to do this whole 'industry' thing and realised that it wasn't for me.

Hard Industry Me Music
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Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

Allowed Enjoy Enjoy Life Life
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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Act Action Become General
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Amongst Battlefield Being Dead
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Been Cease Friendship Never
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Haste is of the Devil.

Devil Of The Haste
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What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Brain Good Out Speed
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Affection Love Love Is Price
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Am Away Begun Entrusted
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Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

Ask Does Give Gratify
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Content He Least Nature
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Am Both Cannot Create
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

End Every Finally Gets
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Destroy Easily Make Power
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Book Easy Just Offended
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Easily Employ Gain Hard
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Church Event Moon Photograph
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Because Everywhere Extension Fear
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Ceases Exist Expression Freedom
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Against Asked Bite Religion
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Corners Easy Escapes Fuss
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Conservative Defense Freedom Frighten
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Celibacy Course He Man
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

About Been Difficulty Examining
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Become Books Clearly Concerned
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

Anywhere Beautiful Big Countryside
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Catholic Childhood Last Sense
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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

Always Begin Myself Recognize
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Compensation Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Beat Deeper Down Integrity
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Breathless Haste Hurry Men
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Admit Always Fruitful Had
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Arrangements Largely Maintaining Make
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Cunning Exile Ideas Keep
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