"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins."

People, Future, Living, Past

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"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."

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"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."

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"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."

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"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."

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"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly."

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