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I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

I spread Message Hope Unity
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I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

Rather have Million people I'm crazy Musical choices
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A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

A face Road map Someone's life Draw attention
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The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

The advice To give Young artists For inspiration
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I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.

By nature Intuitive person To build A situation
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

One success To spend Your life Own way
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Three ingredient Good life Learning Earning
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Heavy hearts Clouds Best relieved Letting of
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You sell A man A book New life
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

No mistaking Real book Like falling In love
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A man Never made Woman angry A failure
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

One rule Good talker Learn To listen
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life Foreign language All men Mispronounce it
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It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Good thing Your mind Upside down Hour glass
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Living in Bookshop Warehouse Explosive
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Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.

Chemotherapy Feel bad Feeling now Good thing
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Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Million People die Every day Go sometimes
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Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

No god No afterlife Persuasive evidence Argument
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonizing death, but then be reborn to have an agonizing and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.

The people Who pray Agonizing death Be reborn
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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Religion Human Make up Our cultural
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I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Sometimes wish Suffering Good cause Risking
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My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

My father Had died Very swiftly Of cancer
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Moral character A precondition Great moral Accomplishments
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One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Great questions Philosophy Have morality Celestial dictation
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It’s not like your soul gets older. It gets wiser.

Like Soul Older Wiser
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The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

The totalitarian The enemy That's absolute Wants control
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Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Many people Come through Esophageal cancer Live
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Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Belief In God Makes people Behave worse
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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic.

Cancer Victim hood Permanent temptation Self centered
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I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

Love it Muslims To war Christian do
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Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Solidarity An attitude Resistance
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.

The violence The bible Appalling
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I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Make preparation To live Die Every day
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and since there is no other metaphor,also the soul.

Literature Not scripture Sustains The mind
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I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicized.

Don't envy Much respect People Completely politicized
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I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

I have My time Woken up Feeling
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Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

The aspirants For president Fool enough To believe
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When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

We talk About morality Our children
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I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.

Regrets Lived Life Mistakes
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I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

Like Work Self-esteem Satisfaction
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I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.

Want Home Look good Feel
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I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.

Want Sane Person Life
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I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.
Marriage Feel Secure Love
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People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.

People Fame Love Reward
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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Like reading Provides Insight Human behavior
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If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Something Genuinely Passionate Soul-crushing
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The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Test Discipline Absence
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A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Women Best Protection Money
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Women Men Forgotten Ultimate economic
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

Protect Liberties Man's Freedom
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