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Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Hit Brick Head Convinced
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I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

Know Time Consequences Correct
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Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Fool Learns Once Him
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Good Hearing People Reason
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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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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Courage Follow Heart Intuition
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Couple Seem Really Records
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Instead Talking Appreciate Arrogant
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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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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Rich Bed Wonderful Something
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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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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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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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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Money Love Enough Losing
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To go forward you have to leave something behind.
Forward Leave Something Behind
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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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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Truth Sometimes Feels Hurts
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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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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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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Life Hit Faith Brick
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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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Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

Window Roll Spit Now
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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Great Honest Life Know
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You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Customer Ask Want Time
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Some music really does suck!

Music Suck Some Really
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If you are good at something never do it for free.

Good You Never Free
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The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Greatest Life Outlast Something
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
Life Outlast Something Spend
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Bad Bad One Between Cause
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Belief Concerning Doubt Faith
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Case Else Faith Greatest
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architect He Himself History
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Any Anything Believes Cheap
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Able Wouldn't Write Song
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I want to be remembered for something positive. It keeps me awake, thinking at night and creating more content.

Positive Content Awake Night
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I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.

Followers Word Okay Twitter
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

Developing Nigerian Rather Somebody
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You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.

Psychos People Care Other
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

Amazing Extremely England Encountered
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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
Forgivable Easily Some Make
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.

Punk Never Know Reply
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If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

Around Inherent Cynicism Cry
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Abundance Acquire Something Tune
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Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.

Teach Idea Role Gender
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

Anger Because Come Fear
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I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.
Mistake Often Obvious Else
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