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Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. ... Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.
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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
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Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.
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I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
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I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. I have to identify with my own soul. And then I can have such compassion for that soul who has an incarnation like George Bush. I feel compassion. That's karma of the here. Compassion and love, that's all.
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I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.
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There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
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Strength is gained in the range it is trained.
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Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa
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prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask ...