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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.
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Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
