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" I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. "
Dave Matthews
Lean
You
Okay
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" The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. "
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" I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. "
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" I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. "
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" There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together. "
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" We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us. "
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" When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way. "
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" Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. "
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" So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles. "
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" Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope. "
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" I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence. "
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" I'm a very vicious critic of myself. "
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" I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land. "
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" We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten. "
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" Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that. "
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" Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too. "
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" It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing. "
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" The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political. "
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" If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign. "
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" I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere. "
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" I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. "
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" In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent. "
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" A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me. "
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" South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself. "
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" We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked! "
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" I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally. "
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" It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. "
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