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Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.

When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message?. . . The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty. . . .

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.

The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.

I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

I could stop and live carefully but that's ridiculous. I don't want to live carefully.

I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.

Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake?

If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

It's important that we came here, just to touch base here in this great country... When I was about 16 I came with my dad for a couple of weeks and had a great time and I've wanted to come back, it's been way too long. So, I'm very happy to be here and I want to come back longer with the rest of my family.

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.