"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.”
“From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly alike, and the greatest source of error in the assertions of Benedict and Lombroso has been the finding of this or that variation in a criminal's brains, and maintaining such to be characteristic of the 'criminal constitution,' unmindful of the fact that like variations of structure may and do exist in the brains of normal, moral persons.”
“I think record companies are criminals.”
“The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.”
“If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.”
“My reputation is different among different groups. You have your fans, your non-fans, your team, your crew, your family, your friends and then you have your peers. I think they're all different and each of them have their separate opinions about you.”

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“If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.”
“In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.”

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