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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

Compel Create Subtitute External
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A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Dream Remain Understood Mere
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Special Ability Heavy Energy
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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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I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.

Regret Follies Sprang Obstinacy
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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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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Greatest Important Problem Outgrown
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When we consider the infinite variety of dreams, it is difficult to conceive that there could ever be a method or a technical procedure which would lead to an infallible result. It is, indeed, a good thing that no valid method exists for otherwise the meaning of the dream would be limited in advance and would lose precisely that virtue which makes dreams so valuable for therapeutic purposes – their ability to offer new points of view.

Infinite Dream Conceive Procedure
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Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Concern Character Reputation While
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Fatigue Frustration Cause Work
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Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Possession Precious Most Sure
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I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it.

Avoid Best Under High
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All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

Fear Victory Death Forward
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We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Rose Magical Blooming Garden
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Profit Mistake Different Again
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Month More Year Friend
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

People Fun Rarely Have
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

Sleep Lose Instead Worrrying
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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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Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember

Allow Upset Small Life. Should
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If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive
Want Gather Honey Kick
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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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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

Rest Eternally Course Absurd
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

Worse Call Crazy Dismissive
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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself especially when everybody is watching

True Hard Thing Yourself
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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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Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like

Racism Bigots Feel Hate
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No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone… you answer it.

Matter Old Answer Phone
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If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour, you can lose yourself.

Lose People Right Around
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I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.
Famous Today Might Count
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I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

Support Question Extent Right
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The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

World Figure Worse Better
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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Stage Happy Time Adult
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People don’t know what it’s like standing up there on stage when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

People Wall Stand Stage
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Everyone around me says, “You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.

Around Genius Great Voice
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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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If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Comedy Teacher Salary Doing
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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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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

About Best Couple Done
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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Boring Going Here Know
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I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

Any Art Between Boundaries
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
Really Some Songs Strangely
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I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Always Had Human More
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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 believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

Believe Best Bring Often
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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 had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

About Articulate Does Explaining
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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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