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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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The pluses outweigh the minuses. They do give benefits, they do have health insurance.
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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Without all of this, ... Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton might never have been elected president.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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She was strong if not stronger than he was.
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I don't do my own Instagram.
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I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. ...
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My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.
YOUNG BUCK
I been doing music my whole life.
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With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
YOUNG BUCK
I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.
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I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.'
SEAN YOUNG
I don't really like doing interviews.
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I have a lot of supporters.
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Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.
SEAN YOUNG
I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.
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I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.
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If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to a...
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Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't wan...
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If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't...
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You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice thing...
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I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and mad...
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There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my ...
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The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.
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I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me...
NEIL YOUNG
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so...
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Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you'...
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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
NEIL YOUNG
I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
NEIL YOUNG
I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
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When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you&...
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ...
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One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
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To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a s...
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The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the un...
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets...
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I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
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Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.
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Rock and roll is here to stay.
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Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
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It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
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Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG
All men think all men mortal but themselves.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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