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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

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Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

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I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

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For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

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My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.

About Although Anomaly Before
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I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.

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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

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I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

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I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.

Believe Born Child IWasBorn
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I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.

Black Cigarettes Day Every
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Afraid Any End Leaving
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

After Anyone Before Even
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When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Being Born Coming Great
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The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

About First Landing Mars
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I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

About Announce Blow Calling
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In spite of the ups and downs, I kept going. In some quarters, things didn’t go well, but it didn’t matter since what I was doing was and is still making me happy.

Kept going Quarters Happy
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

Boy Dead sea Sick
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Retirement Ridiculous Had pimples
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

Respect Elders Reached Age
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At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

Artists Block Devastating Female
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It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

Act Big Big Deal Deal
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I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

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Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

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Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.

Ambitious Even Massively PayPal
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PayPal was disruptive, it was democratizing, and it had universal appeal. It gave power to millions and millions of individuals and reduced monopolist control from nations, banks, and other huge corporations.

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In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

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This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

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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.

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The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

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I think I was a born scientist.
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I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.
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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.

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When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

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I just don't know how I was able to be a boxer in the first place without believing God.

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I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
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But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.

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When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

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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.

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As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

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I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

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Never was a miser a brave soul.

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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

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