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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
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It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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It's always easier in the Senate minority to maintain unity.
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
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I kind of wish people didn’t know who I am, that I could just lie, say I’m a speechwriter for Obama. This is what I said before Twilight. And then Obama came along and picked up all these young writers. I found out this guy, Jon Favreau — who’s not the actor Jon Favreau — is writing for him. And I was like, Wow, I wonder if the people who thought I was bullshitting at the time are like, ‘Oh my god. That guy! That kid who was drunk in some bar actually wrote the health care bill!’
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When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.
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Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.
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I need physics more than friends.
