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If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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If you can't take something down in 10 bullets, you probably shouldn't even own a gun.
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If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
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If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.
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If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.
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If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
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If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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