The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENThere have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.
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When it comes to luck, you make your own.
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Somehow all you ever need’s never really quite enough.
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The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
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Someday girl, I don’t know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we’ll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
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It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
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You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
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The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
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If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.
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Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.
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I’m ready to grow young again.
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We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another. We took care of one another. In the end, we kept faith in each other.
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The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.
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The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind.
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Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
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