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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Administer Fortunate Governments How
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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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We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.

Universe Create Artist Poet
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I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist.

Hungry Cultures Exist Suffer
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Make that call. Send that text. Forgive that person. Tell them you miss them. Let go of that Grudge. Show more kindness . Don't take it for granted because tomorrow isn't promised

Forgive Person Call Send
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Crises Emergencies Great Greater
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Act Advantage Better Character
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Actually Catch Character Darker
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Beautiful Happen More
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Say Eyes
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Endure Fact Gain Happiness
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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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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Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Become Show People Only
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I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

Lied Face Camera Night
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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

Problem Gender Weight Individual
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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 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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A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.

World Start Raise Differently
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God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!

Show Rather Send Situation
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Until you change a man's thinking, you cannot change his life, you cannot change his state and therefore cannot change his estate. The extent of your vision is the boundary of your blessing. How far your vision can go is how much you can possess.

Change Life Until State
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Somebody once asked me, “How do you get time to read?” I answered him, “How do you get time to eat?

Time Eat Read Once
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It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.

Men Woods Paid Real
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I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.

Sold Show Drips EBay
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To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

Events Americans Union State
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You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.

Never Painfully End Enjoy
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I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

Climate Geography Planet Use
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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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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

About Education How Know
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

Actor Actress Devil Great
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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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When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Shooting Paid Set Worth
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We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

Operate System Everything Simplify
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

Communicate Higher Practical Level
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Life Movie Eyes Through
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Customers don’t measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

Customer Measure Try Deliver
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

Design Funny Word People
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We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we’re going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I’ve got to accomplish a lot of these things while I’m young.

Period Short Opportunity Great
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People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

People Rely Marketing Research
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Every minister is his worst enemy, and there is no one against you as yourself. You will see how weak the devil is when you do what you should do.

Weak Worse Against Minister
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Your consciousness of who you are in Him is what actually determines what you can handle. Your knowledge of who you are in Him is what determines how much command over affairs on earth you will have, because being in command demands that you be strong and of a good courage.

Courage Good Strong Demand
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I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up and handle it.

Chest Handle Stick Hard
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That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don’t see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life.

Kill Tell Life Stronger
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I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.

Leader Born Authority Natural
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If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.

God Quiet Show Never
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There’s no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated.

Plan Show Appreciated Understand
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No matter how far you get ahead of me, I’m gonna catch you. That’s my mentality that I go there with

Catch Mentality Ahead Far
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Worrying gets you nowhere. if you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

Lost Care Run Already
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There are a lot of things that we need to constantly talk about so that somehow there should be a recognition of this… People feel that the Fela Kuti’s spirit needs to come back.

People Constantly Talk Feel
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