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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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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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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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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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The only way you can know where the line is is if you cross it.

Cross Way Know Line
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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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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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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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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'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Feel Individual Just Need
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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

After Amazes Analyze Intelligent
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Awaken Demons Ghosts Hand
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

Anything Colour Expression Like
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Absence Absolute Challenging Confront
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I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Amazing Anywhere Else Lived
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Advantage Again Become Better
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Acceptable Access Age Certain
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Any Artifice Artist Believe
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I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Able About Always Anything
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

Agent Awe Behind Believe
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Aging Belief Between Biology
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Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.

Forever Suffocate Breath Holding
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I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

Life Subject Awareness Body
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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Plenty Stay Moment Life
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In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be a success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.

Success Excellence Process Ignore
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Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Might Destiny Life Think
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You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Positive Choice Rest Life
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In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.
Laugh Life Person Real
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Harmony Opportunity Achieve Society
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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Fear Happiness Resources Poor
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Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

Important Last Long Lyrics
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I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Act Control Feel How
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I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.

Picture Powerless Small Smile
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I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Care Courage Function Give
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Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

Ear Life Loved Much
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If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
Poor Live Long Likely
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I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Actually Again Always Bored
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I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it's what I love, and it's all I care about, so I'm good with it.

Care Every Good Much
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“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Whatever Expect Confidence Becomes
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“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

Parent Children Greatest Blessings
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“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”

Rewards Enjoy Greater Indispensable
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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Growing Learning Life Mistake
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