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A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'
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A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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