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My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

Adam AdamSandler Good-Looking Name
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Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

Anyway End Figured Get
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I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.
Always Friends Had House
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Always Bend Eye Head
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Cannot Face Keep See
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

About Among Breeze Flowers
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Adds Conversation Myself Often
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Dread Liberty Means Men
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Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Adventure Either Great Life
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

When Am Good Very
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Believe In Censorship Made
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

She Is The Type
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Call Dark Golden Happy
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Marriage Great Institution But
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Always Feels First Had
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

When Good Very Good
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

About Advice Anything He
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

No Model Lady Just
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Bad Command General Good
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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Away Career Close Duty
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I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

Naive Read Incessantly People
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Nature Believe
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We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

Read Frequently Mind
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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Think History I
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Critics Cry Finest Full
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
Love Prelude Sorrow Headache
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Classical music Survive Song Voice
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Music Gift Burden Remember
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Drug Addicts Sounds Cat
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Bad Because Found Me
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

Absorb Accept Capacity Enormous
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

Ability Basic Best Company
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Advantage Great GreatAdvantage Home
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My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

Capacity Extraordinary Leaders Occasion
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Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

About Against Doing Doing The Right Thing
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A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

Ability Also Great Great Leader
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Affection AllMyLife Been Every
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

Call Gaga Know Lady
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Ceases Critic Deadly Encouragement
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
Expensive Grand Had Like
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

Any Believe Dead Gone
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