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I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

At Least One Continue Empty Ensure
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Allen Bring Death Entire
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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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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

Comedy Coming Hear Kind
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

Glad Improvised Most Scene
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Being Glamorous Had Look
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Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

Happy Know Only Really
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

Around Good Homeless Living
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

Began Country Dawn Home
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There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

Emphasis Generally Jokes Life
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Being Capable Larger Laureate
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Heard Many Poem Thought
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…The main crux is that we need government and government needs us. And what government supports assiduously, can only be success.

Need government Supports Success
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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

End Geared Only Play
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Committed Couple Doing First
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I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

Day Drafts Go Guilt
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Being Comedian Great Interested
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

Cab Drove Had Job
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Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

About Actually Around Casual
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You should care for your staff, ask them questions, find out about their families and if you ask me, I’ll say send them personalized SMS on a daily basis thanking them for all they are doing to grow your business, you’ll be shocked.

Should care Questions Families Business
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

Being Cross Dealing Get
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Ability Alive Come Extremely
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I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.

Anonymous Was As Quite
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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

About Could Course Going
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I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

Am Any Anyone Been
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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Angel Being Something Touched
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Any Community Democratic Entrance
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Clouds Ecstasy Feel Me
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The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Always Been Elected First
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Old age is the only disease you don't want to be cured of.

Old age Disease Cured of
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The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

Trouble Movie Released Accident
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

Regard Career Precious Convictions
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Any Committee Determined Flame
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The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

Truth Man Calculated Sum
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Clash Freedom Ideas Sound
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I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

Sincere towards Experimenting Fills Enthusiasm
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
Am Has-Been I Am Will
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I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Always Beautiful Dad Family
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

Believe Learning Peoples pictures
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I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.

Been Cardiovascular Caribbean Classes
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You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

About Enough Get Going
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I used to eat big meals at 2 A.M. and base it on my schedule. But I don't do that no more.

Base Big Eat Meals
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These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Acceptance Come Conquer Emotions
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Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Beautiful Buddhism Faith Says
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My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.

Along Always Arts Bad
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

Badly Beginning Chest Chin
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What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.

Classic Did Era Frame
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I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

Actually Away Doing Force
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

About Condition Control Cultivating
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For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

After Awful Because Candy
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