People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan

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Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.
BOB DYLAN

Deal Life Myself Priority
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
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Death Equality People Talk
You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.
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Journey Path Return Yourself
I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
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Music Myself Start Writing
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
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Beautiful Myself Patriot Rule
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
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Music Myself Philosophy Religious Truth
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.
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Myself Name Poem Sing Song
One should never be where one does not belong.
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Oneself Place
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
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Criticism Understand Yourself
I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.
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Change Human Kind Manipulation Mindset Myself Thinking
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.
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King Patriot Prison Steal Yourself
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
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Change Day Myself Person Sleep Wake Up
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
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Experience People Silence Teaching Terrify
May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.
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Courage Forever Stand Stay Strong Young Yourself
I’ll remember you. When I’ve forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.
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Best Forgot Remember True Yourself
Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.
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Change Thinking Yourself
You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we’re all spirit. That’s all we are, we’re just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we’re going to leave that behind.
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Leaving Place Skin Spirit Walk Work Yourself
I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Myself Sad
We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.
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Arrive Inspirational Spiritual State
You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
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Hope Old People Start Yourself
It’s not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you’re a fake, that’s tougher to live with.
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Fake Important Live People Tough Yourself
An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.
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Artist Care Place Thinking Yourself
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
BOB DYLAN

Honesty Law Live Yourself
You’ll never be greater than yourself.
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Greatness Yourself
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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Creation Interest Music Myself
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
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Burden Disappear Myself Notice
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself
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Independent Need Trust Yourself

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

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