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Alienation
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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
-Bob Dylan
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America
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I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
-Bob Dylan
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Democracy
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Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid.
-Bob Dylan
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Equality
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All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
-Bob Dylan
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Experience
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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
-Bob Dylan
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Gratitude
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Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
-Bob Dylan
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Greatness & Great Things
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Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
-Bob Dylan
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Heaven
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Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
-Bob Dylan
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Heroes/Heroism
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
-Bob Dylan
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Honesty
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To live outside the law, you must be honest.
-Bob Dylan
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Immortality
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For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
-Bob Dylan
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Life
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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
-Bob Dylan
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Maturity
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Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
-Bob Dylan
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Money
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Money doesn't talk, it swears.
-Bob Dylan
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Nature
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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
-Bob Dylan
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Poetry
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She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
-Bob Dylan
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Presidency
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But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
-Bob Dylan
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Regret & Remorse
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
-Bob Dylan
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Religion
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Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.
-Bob Dylan
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Resentment
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In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
-Bob Dylan
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Salvation
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Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
-Bob Dylan
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Success & Failure
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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan
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Travel
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Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
-Bob Dylan
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Twentieth Century
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Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
-Bob Dylan
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.
-Bob Dylan
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Books by and about Bob Dylan