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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs."

"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."

"I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine."

"Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time."

"I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper."

"The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly."

"I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become."

"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."
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