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Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Things Change World Important
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Actor Movies Seriously Set
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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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To go forward you have to leave something behind.
Forward Leave Something Behind
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Hope Person Defeated Does
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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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Innovation,Change,Opportunity,Threat

Innovation Change Opportunity Threat
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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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To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

Hate Show Important Really
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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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Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Performance About Love Giving
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Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.

Brings Toghether Hatred Mutual
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Do your best at every job. Don’t sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

Success Hire Hungry Job
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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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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Work Hate Love Someone
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I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Highway Stumps Year Wonder
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We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.
Settle Excellence Anything Less
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
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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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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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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Administer Fortunate Governments How
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I'm most comfortable on stage.

Most Stage Comfortable On
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I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

Want World GO Learn
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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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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

Horrible Hold Feel Maybe
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Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Bridges Build Regions Unexplored
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I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Smarts Patience Office Have
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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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You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.

Start Customer Experience Sell
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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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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Any Appeal Broad Force
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Communicating Dictionary Impact Poet
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Really Need Stand Room
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Asked He Never Truth
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There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

Way Forgiven Village Bunch
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Ages Generals Knights Like
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Voice Happened Before Tap
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What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

Fortune Good Good Fortune Governments
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

Perform Would Trying Bomb
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You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Don't Twist Work Arm
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