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"Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"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."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on."

"I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?"

"We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences."

"It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today."

"I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing."
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