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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

Another Audience Audience Members Become
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
Believe Anger Grudges Embers
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If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.

Weird Play Twice Part
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My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Baker Brand Campbell Chocolate
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Admired Ambition American Average Boyfriend
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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Around Better Bloody Find
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Being Biggest Housewife Interest
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I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Any Does Everyone Many
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If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Admiration Ahead Get Get Married
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Acting Childish Else Nice
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Age Attract Bore Certain
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I'm at peace with what I'm doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Peace Good Wake Lifestyle
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Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity.
Living Life Position Status
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Tell Teach Remember Involve
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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

About Abstract Boy Certainly
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I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class needs to understand that the fight against austerity and the fight for climate action are the same fight.

Absolutely Action Against Agenda
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
Activist Become Big Big Mistake
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

Climate Crisis Holistic Inequality
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It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
Common Common Ground Find Get
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

Collaboration Come Coming Cooperation
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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

Child Eighties Family Going
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

Baby Before Had Hand
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Both Could Doing Every
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Round Band Bricks Came
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One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.

Gamble Irreplaceable Precious
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

About Again Book Books
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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

Anything Anything Else Better Body
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

Build Hard How Infrastructure
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Ashamed Ask Attribute Been
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
About Change Depressed Hopeless
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Always Any Because Common
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.

About Am For The People I Am
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Another Error He Him
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Any Author Bestowed Bible
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Cannot Cared Disease Drought
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The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Climate Forests Importance Our
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Civilization Destroyed Generally Gross
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself

Conquers Demolish Commits Great error.
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

About As Far As Discontented Far
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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Around Coming Day Directions
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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Air Alone Befall Course
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Climb Get Good Mountains
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions

Simple Inclined Deceiver Lack
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Away Awhile Break Clean
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Willing Everything Share Glory
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One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

Been Cathedrals Churches Dam
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Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.

America Barren Been Bitter
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

People Prince Understand Nature
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The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

Also Begin Damage Few
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