A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. — Madonna

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I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.

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I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.

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Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

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Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. — Henry James

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