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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

I think I've got the best job around.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

I got my first handgun license when I was 22.

I've got nothing to hide.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it.

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.