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I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.


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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.



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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.



Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.



In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.



Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.



My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.



The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.



Vice is its own reward.

Vice is its own reward.



Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.



No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.





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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.

I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.



Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.



For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.



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Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood



I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

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Sometimes your dreams come true, and its a real drag.



Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?



I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.

I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.



Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.




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