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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
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Be kind, man - don't be mankind.
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It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.
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The earth is Godʹs golf ball.
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If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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