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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."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."

"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."

"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second."

"Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music."

"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling."

"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."

"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."
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