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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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Personal Development

"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places."
Music

"I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need."
Love

"I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist."
Want

"I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen."
Feelings

"That's what my life is, writing songs."
Life

"I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels."
Reading

"What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance."
Being

"I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."
Future

"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."
Life

"I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession."
Future
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