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"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
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"You're growing and that scares people, it frightens the shit out of them because they know if they don't step up within themselves you'll move forward with out them. When this happens, don't you dare settle to suit the mould - have courage to live without one."
"I done many wrong and bad things in my lifeLove by heart and soulTrusted with my whole Devoted my life Keep honesty from the depth of heartNever use mind every decision took by heart."
"In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art."
"Your life should reflect your heart."
"I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter."
"I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes."
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"James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good."
"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child."
"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening."
"I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either."
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