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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

Again Change Does Down
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

Act Complete Difficult Emerges
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Hopeless Romantic Love Time
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Nice Lapdogs Poems Embracing
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Yourself Stone Friends Parents
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Nighttime People Thing Supposed
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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Settle Heart Better Relationship
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I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Answering Mail Anymore Letters
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Medium Matter Giving Art
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Yardstick Quality Excellence Expect
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Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Break Heart Crush Life
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This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Stage Longer Position Lucky
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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Woman Creativity Destroy Judge
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I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Better Everybody Change Want
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So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Weird Standing Real Life
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Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Mirror Morning Today Answer
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Focus Simplicity Complex Worth
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.

Heavy Success Light Begin
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.2

Belongs .Own Mine Feeling
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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Travel Backpack Bunch Clif
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Good Life Married Enjoy
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Life People Influence Build
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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

What Does Matter Fate
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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Rule Rollins Muscians Actor
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Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

Listen Dent Universe Life
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I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

Want Pass Smooth Through
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Burn Special Better Smell
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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Problem Solution Elegant Layers
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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

When World Yourself Eat
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My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Favorite Life Money Precious
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There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Trapped Bodies Counter Mountain
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Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.

Customer Close Need Realize
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Politicians Nature Sector Great
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Life Hit Faith Brick
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War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

War Pathetically Times Small
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People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
People Weight Starting But
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Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Attack Defence Lies Strength
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I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Literate Healthy Peaceful Planet
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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Big Easily Fall Great
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I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Smarts Patience Office Have
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I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Playboy Face Hair Like
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Fear Forces Great Imitate
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Destruction Education Ever Invented
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Heartbreak Definitely Deeper Sensibility
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Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Life Broad Embrace Change
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