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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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You don't kill your way to peace.
