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The most important thing is work.

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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.
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I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.
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My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.
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As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is discipline, focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.
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I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.
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Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.
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It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.
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But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.
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When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.
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In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
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I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?
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People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.
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I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
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The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
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It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
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