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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Eats Her Ireland Old
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Ego Individuals Just Like
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Arguing Busy Centuries Immortality
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Big Fear Make Those
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Art Cracked Irish Servant
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God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

God Hear Many Spoke
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'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

Also Around Complimentary Everyone
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Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

About Anything Avalanche Everything
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I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.
Anymore Life Live Living
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

Almost Because Beyond Clearly
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

American Consistently Data Facts
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I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver.

Am Problem Therefore Woman
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It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.

Actually Better Demand Democrats
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One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

Bought Farm First Iowa
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I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

Am Favor Guilty Return
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Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

America Both Bought Cannot
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.
Alive Dissent Elections Hang
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I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

Ask Comics Offer Only
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You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.
Anybody Break Doing Hollywood
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I'm not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

Become Me Politician President
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There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads.

America Democratic Heads Party
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In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

Able Find Good Joke
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

About Adult Bankrupt Cheese
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The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.

American Both Democrats Election
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After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

Act After Appearance Hollywood
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Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

Business Form Imitation Show
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Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Did How Know Makes
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I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

Biology Bothered Enjoying Great
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You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.
Always Better Get Getting
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I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

Always Because Could Perform
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You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

Healthy Kind Personality Relationship
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I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

About Cool Dinner Earning
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I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

Calm Find How Know
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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

About Because Discipline Great
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And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

Funny Humor Kept Know
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I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'

Anything Because Domestic Fun
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My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

Anything Funnier Life Real
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I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

All Art Comedy Form
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Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.

Cause Deep Effect How
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America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

Certain Dreams Clash Culture
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Aspects Building Character Educated
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

Bar Complain Least Value
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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

Explain Form Known Logical
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The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Exploit Just Poor Rich
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As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
Always Details Journalist Story
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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

Before Born Family Matters
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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

Time People Reality Right
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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Effective First First Person How
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When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Ideas Important Cover Hold
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If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

Form Itself Kind Material
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