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We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.
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Lights are glowing in the palm trees.
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There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.
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I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.
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I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.
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We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!
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Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts.
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There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.
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Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.
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Quitting doesn't enter my mind.
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I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.
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And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
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You better lava me now or lava me not.
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Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.
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Why don't we get drunk and screw?
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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
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I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?
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I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.
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I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
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At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.
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We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!
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If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
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I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.
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You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.