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• You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Way, You Re The Best

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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Pay, Who Your Friends Are

  Bob Dylan (1970). “Tarantula”

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• Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Hurt, Passion

  "Bob Dylan Dropped Some Serious Wisdom on 35 Million AARP Members" by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2015.

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• Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Too Much, Way

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• All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, People, Illusion

  Song: Tangled Up in Blue

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• What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

  Bob Dylan

  World

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Loneliness, Fighting

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

  Bob Dylan

  Ambition, Order, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To live outside the law, you must be honest.

  Bob Dylan

  Truth, Honesty, School

  "Absolutely Sweet Marie" (song) (1966).

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• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

  Bob Dylan

  Opportunity, May, Might

  "Chronicles: Volume One". Book by Bob Dylan, 2004.

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• People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

  Bob Dylan

  Ambition, People, Greed

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• There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Loneliness, Solitude

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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• I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
  blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
  "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

  Bob Dylan

  Marriage, Giving, Storm

  Song: Shelter From The Storm

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• There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Black And White, Thinking

  Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, December 13, 1963.

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• Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Beach, Memories, Crazy

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

  Bob Dylan

  Privacy, Sells

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• Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.

  Bob Dylan

  Wells, Knows, Who You Are

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• It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Tire, Ifs

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Watches, I Can

  Song: Bye and Bye, 2001

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• Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

  Bob Dylan

  Past, People, Identity

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• The times they are a-changing.

  Bob Dylan

  Time

  1964 Title of song.

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• let me forget about today until tomorrow

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Today, Tomorrow

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• The longer you live, the better you get.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Baby, Forgive Me

  Song: Maybe Someday, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

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