One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me.... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

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I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don't think the derogatory ''managed relationships''. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can't be money, and it should not be money. — Anil Ambani

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People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. -Johnny Cash

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I grew up in New York and I've always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person. When somebody recognizes me from the film - and it can be a wide range of people, which shows the power of film - I feel like they're talking about someone else we both know. I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.

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That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

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It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

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I've learned never to say never. -Dwayne Johnson

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So many people love you. Don’t focus on the people that don’t – Soyen

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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

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