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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

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Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

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Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

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If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

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People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

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Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

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I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

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I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

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When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

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I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

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The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

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We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

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Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

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To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

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So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'

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A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

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That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

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Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

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I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

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When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

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Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That's going to be great. I'm trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I'm planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he's got that musical bone, too.

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Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

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But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

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You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

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I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

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