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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Africa Come Future About
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Agreement Either Even Felt
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You cannot run faster than a bullet

Run Faster Bullet You
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Begin Create Imagine Live
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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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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Hopeless Romantic Love Time
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Courage Follow Heart Intuition
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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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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
People Time Want Show
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Yourself Stone Friends Parents
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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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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Medium Matter Giving Art
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What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

Mean Able What Go
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Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Break Heart Crush Life
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Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Money Love Enough Losing
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To go forward you have to leave something behind.
Forward Leave Something Behind
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Focus Simplicity Complex Worth
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To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

Hate Show Important Really
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.2

Belongs .Own Mine Feeling
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Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.

Voice Head Control Brain
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Life People Influence Build
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Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

Clean Body Sharp Mind
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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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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

What Does Matter Fate
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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Rule Rollins Muscians Actor
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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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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
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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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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

When World Yourself Eat
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Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

Country Learn Program Computer
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I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Topic Left Learning Person
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Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.

Customer Close Need Realize
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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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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Heartbreak Definitely Deeper Sensibility
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Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Life Broad Embrace Change
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Really Need Stand Room
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There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

Way Forgiven Village Bunch
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Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Anyone Blue Fields Green
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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

Change Feel Best Have
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You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Don't Twist Work Arm
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Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products. Instead, enrich lives.
Customer Happy Product Enrich
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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Great Honest Life Know
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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Strategy Product Follow People
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You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Customer Ask Want Time
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When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Relationship Putting Chips Break
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