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"Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep."
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"I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well."
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"Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that."
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"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."
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"Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard."
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"But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been."
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"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for."
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"You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday."
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"Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!"
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"If you rest, you rust."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
Emotional

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
Attitude

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
Life

"Nothing will work unless you do."
Motivational

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
Relationship

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
Light

"Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone."
Leadership

"I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything."
Creativity

"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."
Identity

"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
Creativity
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