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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

About Because Elements Language
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Chemist Could Ends Exciting
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When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

Things Bad Best time Reinvent
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I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

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I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

About black White Many people Mixed backgrounds
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Story Star wars Classic one Retold
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Advise Congress Distinct Duties
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When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

Film maker Desperate Survive End
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Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated .

Making Film Sieve Element
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Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Changes Unusual Movies Release them
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Earth Effort Endless Heaven
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I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Giant proponent Movies Seen Phones
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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Football games Stadium attendance Movie
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Come Great Humility Nearest
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I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Realized Director Horrible people Right
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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

Never interested Powerful Famous Film school
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Believe Universal religion Language Feeling
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

Fable Lord Jesus Friend Satisfied
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Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

Trials Obstacles Difficulties Food
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When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

God Overcomes Our difficulties Assurance
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I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

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Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile
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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

My body Hands Actions Strongest
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God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

God Written Law People
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I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Care Children Enough Know
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The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

Admit Itself Jobs People
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Kings are mere pawns these days.

Kings Pawns Days
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You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings.

Been Beings Cyberspace Different
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Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

Bad Barbie Because Grow
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I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.

Blond Body Boyfriend Disappeared
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We are who we consistently think we are.

We are Consistently Think
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The point is we are borrowing, but we are borrowing sensibly. Seriously, no country develops with its own resources alone especially countries in Africa

Borrowing Sensibly Country Develop
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Some of us are having a wild time, we are constantly changing while remaining the same…we are a little insane, and love is the reason for the malady.

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Although my songs reflect many issues which are relevant in my society. I believe that human relations are the site where all issue emerge.

My song Relevant Society Human relations
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We are changing lives one at a time, change isn't coming, it's happening
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Whenever I'm faced with an issue, I deal with it squarely, even if I was going to fail, I try to learn from my mistakes. So if we appreciate our past, then we can understand where we are at presently.

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There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

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We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of good governance, respect for human rights, rule of law.

Africa Dividend Democracy Economic
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Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.

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Spirituality is when we can't explain everything in life, totally. So, we have a spiritual meaning for it; we don't know why we are here really.

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Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Act Advantage Always Audience
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Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die someday. So if you like, remember me.

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My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough you will find some faults in me, so keep an open mind.

Children Perfect father Old enough Open mind
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Truth is, I enjoy what I am doing. If you don’t enjoy what you are doing, stop it.

Truth Enjoy Doing Stop it
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
About Age Every Feared
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You must have joy in whatever you are doing, because what’s in this life?

Have joy Doing Life
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

About Complaining Complaints Instead
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The best thing you can ever do is to make sure that the bets you take are long term bets.

Best thing Make sure Bets Long term
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