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My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

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The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

Dollars Friend Got Just
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I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

Appeal Bad Bad Girl Because
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I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Funny Girl Meaning Quirky
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I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

1940s 1970s Book Brooklyn
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I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a part of me. When I'm playing, it's staring right back at me, saying, 'Remember where you came from.'

Always Back Because Came
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I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Angst Appreciate Boring Cool
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I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

Belly Big Big Difference Boyfriend
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I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

Anything Bonus Care Cool
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I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

Beginnings Clear Come Everything
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People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Always Apply Ask Because
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When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

Asked Explaining Guitar How
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Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

Choice Get Kids Permanent
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People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.

Actually Agree Always Bad
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Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

Big Fabulous Go Lot
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Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Always Am Get Going
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Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.

15Minutes Ability About Better
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My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.

Belief Every Goal Liked
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Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Doing Entrepreneurs Forward Going
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Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

Help Network People Powerful
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As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

Child Individual Just Life
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.

Buy Down Found Funds
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But my system for over 30 years has been this: When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30.

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Broadly, the meaning of life comes from how we interact with each other. The Internet can reconfigure space so that the right people are always next to each other.

Always Each How Interact
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really like the 'Silicon Valley' show. It's good to do a little rib-poking and not take yourself too seriously, so I think it's awesome the show does that.

Awesome Does Good IThink
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LinkedIn allows professionals, including the middle class, to invest in themselves in order to find the right jobs. That essentially can help make them prosperous.

Class Essentially Find Help
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When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

Did Either Enhanced Influence
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Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

Around Been Brain Experience
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Because Believe Big Big Head
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Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

Alone Another Blues Digital
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About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

About Always Am Best
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I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
Alone Dawn Find Love
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What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

Brings Ego Enlightened First
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Your value is determined by the words that come out of your mouth. Ideas void of wisdom indicates a person who is not thoughtful in their thinking.

Value Words Mouth Wisdom
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I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Believe Make Music People
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I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Always Beginning Certain Even
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The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Always Around Artist Because
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Choose goals that are realistic which can be done on a regular basis in life. Remember, the Almighty God loves acts that are consistent. So start small; work on it instead of trying to do it all at once & then quickly losing steam.

Choose goals Realistic Almighty God Loves
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I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Any Being Desire Goes
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The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

All America Bad Challenge
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Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

Forgiveness Thread Love Friendship
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I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.

Want Tell Living God
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I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.
Teach kids Tough Fist
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Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

Boxing Most difficult Ever done Life
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
About Begins Book Care
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If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.

Maintain Integrity Go wrong
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My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends.

My friends Enemies
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Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

One step Trusting God Best
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I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.

Upset Newspaper Realize Human being
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People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

Come Tone Warmth Context
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