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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.

Burn Idea Problem Passionate
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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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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Nighttime People Thing Supposed
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Lonely Boring Own Crowed
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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Settle Heart Better Relationship
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
Communicating People Through Work
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This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Stage Longer Position Lucky
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So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Weird Standing Real Life
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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Travel Backpack Bunch Clif
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Do your best at every job. Don’t sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

Success Hire Hungry Job
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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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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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You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.

Start Customer Experience Sell
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Communicating Dictionary Impact Poet
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I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Angry Stuff Band Wail
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And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

Choose Life Worth Better
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We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.

Universe Create Artist Poet
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can’t switch gears. It’s a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they’re the same thing.

Weakness Strength Subtle Situation
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I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

Accordance Almighty Believe Conduct
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Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Assassination Enemy Future Sabotage
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I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

Assurance Dictates Go Providence
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Another Bad Believe Change
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Away Community Impulse Sympathy
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Both Both Sides Bring Closer
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Enough Learned Like Those
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

AiBest Earth Eat Grow
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Come Force Idea Individual
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

About Another Being Currents
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Funeral His Own Sympathy
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Confusion Each Happy Other
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Farmer Barn Grain
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Vices Wine
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Race Perish Power
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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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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Looking Nice But Comfort
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I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

Longer Buy Papers Tabloids
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

People Confusing That About
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Comedy is what I love doing and I like to make it as real as possible so that people can relate with it.

Relate People Possible Love
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My aim is to affect people with comedy in a good way.

Good People Affect Aim
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If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

Revolution Dripping Range Televised
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Arguments People Choose Waste
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I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Tours Anticipations Always Start
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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Technology Good Innovation Advent
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Without an education, you won't have a future.

Education Future Without Have
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Black Britain Deal Exist
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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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