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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living."
Building

"I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can."
Home

"Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet."
Play

"Ain't no chance if you don't take it."
Chance

"It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart."
First

"All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it."
First

"I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy."
Being

"But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it."
Time

"Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player."
Pretty

"There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is."
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