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A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
Anything Children Eat Person
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We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.
Assimilate Awakens Between Birth
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I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

Books Earn Horse How
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

Being Black Filmmaker Folks
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

America Black Black America Filmmakers
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Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.

American Else Everyone Get
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I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

Around Blues Control God
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People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
About Differently Family Humorous
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I read more history books than anything else.
Anything Anything Else Books Else
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You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

Anything Just Needs Story
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If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.

Anything Bunch Going Good
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You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.

Able Characters Fall Fight
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Country House Lack Liberty
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Begin Blade Creating Easier
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

About Angry Anything Bring
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Gives Many Nothing Pleasures
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Cruelty Desperately Longer Monotonous
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For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Facing Fact Faith Lots
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I've never done Botox in my life. But I've probably tried everything else under the sun.

Botox Done Else Everything
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We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

Anything Bus Contestants Each
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I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.

Believe Business Hard IBelieve
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One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal.

Cook Favorite FavoriteThings Great
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I work best inundated with things, when it's like raining information.

Best Information Like Raining
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There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

Element Everything Eyes TV
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I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Control Could Efficiency Effort
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I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.

About Based Being Day
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As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

About Crucial Future How
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If I don't wear something for a year, I give it away.

Away Give Something Wear
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Day Done Every Get
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Blessed Cannot Nothing Persuaded
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Dealing Great Great Things Himself
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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.

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

Certain Certain Things Crap Everyone
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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

About Certainly Does Everything
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Around Guitar Itself Music
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I don't think anyone really says anything new.

Anyone Anything New Really
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If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

About Feel Feel Good Gig
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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.

Addict Becomes Boring Controls
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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.

Before Coming Delightful Ever
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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.

Because Expect Failure Foolish
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Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

Am Important Important Thing Just
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

Benefits Energy Everyone Get
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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.

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

Front Helps Internal Just
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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.

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

Began Control Get Out
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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Any Direct Me Mysterious
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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.

Cases Commonly Experience Fire
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I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

Against Amazingly Blessings How
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

Anything Basically Brazil Catch
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