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There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.
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There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
