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I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.
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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
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Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.
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I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.
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I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."
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'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
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I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
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Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
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From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel like making the three mile hike to the well to get water and carry it back, everyone struggles.
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Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
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Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.
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I used to love you I still do So Selfish I love the old you The you that didnt shoot drugs ...The you that didnt get beat on by men You laugh in my face and call me a fool But its true I still love you Sometimes,I can see the old you When your eyes flash When you almost look alive
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I love to go on stage and sing.
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I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
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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.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. But that's how we are. That's what happens when you put people together and put them into societies and cultures and have laws and the idea of justice.
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