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"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."
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Personal Development

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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Personal Development

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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Personal Development

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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Personal Development

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."
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"I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches."
Being

"They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening."
Music

"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
Artist

"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
Business

"I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you."
Experience

"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."
Work

"Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine."
Military

"Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it."
Attitude

"These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip."
Funny

"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."
Punk
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