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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Good Life Married Enjoy
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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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I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

Mellower Angry THings Over
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I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

Dysfunctional Child People Generic
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People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
People Weight Starting But
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Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Attack Defence Lies Strength
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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

Horrible Hold Feel Maybe
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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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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Heartbreak Definitely Deeper Sensibility
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We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.

Party Best First Fun
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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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It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Matters Truth Victory
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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Great Honest Life Know
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The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Collector Strange Sense Music
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Change is hard, but change is good.

Change Good Hard Is
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As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Allow Cheated Christian Duty
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Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Chaos Europe Lights Nothing
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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

Arouse Doom Flowing Nation
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Bad Best God Good
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Believe Deserved Doubt Enemies
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

About Call Consciousness Different
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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Action Control Direct Feeling
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Cause Failure Faith His
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Always Ambassador Authors Best
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Employment Following Man May
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe

Hub Object Universe
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Said Several Thousand Universe
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Life Endure Personal
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Bulk Class Few Lands
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Nervous Stage Help But
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Looking Nice But Comfort
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I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

Longer Buy Papers Tabloids
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Songs Really Direct Interviews
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My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

Body Rhythm Know Quite
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The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.

Fly Bird Dry Leaves
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Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

Condemn Guilty Being Lovely
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Feminist Liberation Toward Woman
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You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.

Psychos People Care Other
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I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Informed Well Nonetheless Try
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

Instrospective Weird Harmful Probably
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Dignity Break Matter Empower
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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

Ireland Interview Kathy Boring
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I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

Electricty Ramones Relevant Music
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Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.

Teach Criticize Problem Have
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Painting Racist Black President
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Always Cannot Control Goes
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Accurate Believe MPeople Put
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