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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

"There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them."

"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."

"I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?"

"I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am."

"Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?"

"I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived."
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"Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums."

"'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one."

"Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed."

"America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live."

"Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life."

"Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy."

"At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set."
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