"I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out."

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"Just as it is impossible to shed tears in Paradise, so to laugh in the world is also a matter of surprise. For just as Paradise is not a place for tears, similarly the world is no place for laughter."

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"The Law of Time and Chaos: In a process, the time interval between salient events expands of contracts along with the amount of chaos."

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"You have no control over your cat! You can't say to your cat, "Cat, heel! Stay! Wait! Lie down! Roll over!" 'Cause the cat's just gonna be sitting there going, "Interesting words … have you finished?"…"

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"原文：We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands and now we have to fight the enemy within, which is much more difficult but just as dangerous to liberty."

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