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My Heart Goes Out To The Families Of Innocent Children Who Were Killed Today In Pakistan!! I Do Not Accept A World Where Kids Are Killed For Wanting An Education! This Violence And Ignorance Has To Stop!!!! It Starts With All Of Us Treating All Human Beings With Dignity And Respect!!

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My Heart Goes Out To The Families Of Innocent Children Who Were Killed Today In Pakistan!! I Do Not Accept A World Where Kids Are Killed For Wanting An Education! This Violence And Ignorance Has To Stop!!!! It Starts With All Of Us Treating All Human Beings With Dignity And Respect!!

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Why Did God Create Men? Because Vibrators Can't Mow The Lawn.

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Freedom Comes When You Learn To Let Go, Creation Comes When You Learn To Say 'no'

To Be Brave Is To Love Someone Unconditionally, Without Expecting Anything In Return. To Just Give. That Takes Courage, Because We Don't Want To Fall On Our Faces Or Leave Ourselves Open To Hurt.

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There's No Law That Says That You Cannot Be A Spiritual Person And A Sexual Person. In Fact, If You Have The Right Consciousness, Sex Is Like A Prayer. It Can Be A Divine Experience. So Why Do They Have To Be Disassociated With One Another?

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You Bring Me To My Knees, While I'm Scratching Out The Eyes Of A World I Want To Conquer, And Deliver, And Despise. And Right While I Am Kneeling There, I Suddenly Begin To Care. And Understand That There Could Be A Person That Loves Me.

When The Day Is Done The Most Important Thing Is Loving People And Sharing Love.

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My Goal From The Very Beginning Was Just To Write Good Songs That Don't Require Any Production To Be Felt Or Understood. I Wanted To Be Able To Sit In A Room With A Guitar And Play The Song From Beginning To End And Have It Be As Impactful As If You Heard The Studio Version With All The Bells And Whistles.

Nos Are Just As Valuable As Yeses In The Game Of Life. In Fact, They're Essential.

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I Think They Were Scared Of Me Because I Was Different.

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When I'm Dead And No Longer The Threat. My Comfort Is That All The Great Artists Since The Beginning Of Time Have Always Been Completely Misunderstood And Never Fully Appreciated Until They Were Dead.

I'd Love To Be A Memorable Figure In The History Of Entertainment In Some Sexual, Comic, Tragic Way. I'd Like To Leave The Impression That Marilyn Monroe Did, To Be Able To Arouse So Many Different Feelings In People.

If We Can Elect An African American As President, We Can Support Gay Marriage! Defeat Prop 8! We Will Not Give Up!

Elvis Presley? He's God.

We Live In A Very Scary Time. Or Should I Say We Don't Live At All.

The Fact Of The Matter Is That You Can Use Your Beauty And Use Your Charm And Be Flirtatious, And You Can Get People Interested In Your Beauty. But You Cannot Maintain That. In The End, Talent Is The Only Thing. My Work Is The Only Thing That's Going To Change Any Minds.

One Must Dare To Show What He Wants. You Have To Go And Ask For Things Rather Than Wait For Them To Happen.

I Don't Like Guys My Age Because They Are Normally Either Married Or Divorced And Grumpy, Fat And Balding.

When I'm Hungry, I Eat. When I'm Thirsty, I Drink. When I Feel Like Saying Something, I Say It.

You Don't Have To Have A Language In Common With Someone For A Sexual Rapport. But It Helps If The Language You Don't Understand Is Italian.

You Took A Pretty Picture And You Smashed It Into Bits, Sank Me Into Blackness And You Sealed It With A Kiss.

Thinking Isn't Something You Think About. It Comes Naturally. Thinking Involves Many Things. It Involves Being An Observer. It Involves Analyzing Things, Taking In What's Around You In The World And Finding How To Make It Inspire Your Work Or Turn It Into A Lesson To Teach Your Children; It's Paying Attention To Details. That's What Thinking Is: Processing.

I Think Most Children Who Are Adopted Ultimately Want To Meet Their Biological Parents And Often Do. I Think That Is An Important Journey For Children Who Are Adopted To Go On.

I Am Attracted To A Thug. I Like That Quality, But I Like The Other Side Of It, Too. Because All Guys Who Go Around Behaving In Macho Ways Are Really Scared Little Girls. So You Have To Look Beneath The Surface. There's A Difference Between My Ideal Man And A Man That I'm Sexually Attracted To, Believe Me. Therein Lies The Rub.

Girls Can Wear Jeans And Cut Their Hair Short, Wear Shirts And Boots Cause It's Okay To Be A Boy. But For A Boy To Look Like A Girl Is Degrading Cause You Think Being A Girl Is Degrading

I Like That You Have Four Minutes To Zero In On Something And Evoke A Specific Feeling And Take People On Some Sort Of Journey.

Nothing Really Matters; Love Is All We Need.

I Just Like The Idea Of Pills. I Like To Collect Them But Not Actually Take Them. When I Fell Off My Horse, I Got Tons Of Stuff: Demerol And Vicodin And Xanax And Valium And Oxycontin, Which Is Supposed To Be Like Heroin. And I'm Quite Scared To Take Them. I'm A Control Freak.

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My Daughter Has A Problem Picking Things Up In Her Room. So If You Leave Your Clothes On The Floor, So If You Leave Your Clothes On The Floor, They're Gone When You Come Home.

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Don't Go For Second Best. Put Your Love To The Test.

I Shouldn't Have Stayed So Long Away. Every Time I Come Here, I Get So Supercharged With Energy. I Truly Believe That Israel Is The Energy Centre Of The World. And I Also Believe That If We Can All Live Together In Harmony In This Place, Then We Can Live In Peace All Over The World.

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