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I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

Don't Easy Songs Cuss
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You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Lower Being Person Must
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rather Play Horn Through
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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'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.

Followers Word Okay Twitter
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If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway.

Understand Question About Anyway
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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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To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

Company Orphanage Donate Powerful
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Passport Travel Americans Lot
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
Think Person Justice Pessimistic
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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Race Never Exist Choice
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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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You can never get enough of what you don't want.You can never get enough of what you don't want.

Enough Get Never Want
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Any Last Need Pockets
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

Much Today Too Up
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Amendment Anybody Anything Colleges
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Facts Government Jokes Just
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Good things don't happen to the child of God; the child of God brings forth good things out of him.

Good Happen Child Bring
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If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

Faith Act Look Foolish
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If at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know.

Age Know God Called
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Christ is not only a person, Christ is a place. When you come into Christ, you don't come into a person; you come into a place.

Person Christ Place Come
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I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

Have Insecurity Course Hang
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There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.

Nothing Upset More Dad
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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.

Constantly Working My Relationship
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God said to me, “You are not sent by the people, you are sent to the people. The people are not responsible for your going; I your Caller am the One responsible for your going. Don't make the people look like your caller.

People Responsible God Going
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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Am Never Writing Breakup
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I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Fiction Younger Ray Bradbury Man
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It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

People Way Repulsive Hear
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It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

Friendly Face Great Bad
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When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.

Race Problem Unless Hatred
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I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

War Song Stopped Music
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I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

Trying Point Strangle Cursing
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I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

Movie Marine Cop Absolutely
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Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

Fish Part Respirating Consume
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I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Many Way Hollywood Allen
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.

Don't Write Songs About
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

If Were Writer Singer
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My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

My Life Drama Full
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Able Business Check Crime
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep

Any Creek Get Government
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We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think I'll ever go naked, but I'll never say never.

Asked Been Ever Go
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Any Creek Get Government
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

About Again Being Damn
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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Dwell What Went Wrong
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The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Winners Life Constantly Terms
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We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Learn Rejection Acceptance Life
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Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes – that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can’t be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

Magnificent Legions Order Extraordinary
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The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

System Process Discipline Company
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Done Get Anticipation Life
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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Concept Transmission Automatic Drive
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