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I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Remember First Half Life
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Against Beats Blows Dust
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I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Admit Back Beyond Happened Just
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We were a country band with a social conscience.

We Were Country Band
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I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
Admit Cover Honored Time
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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

Days There Many People
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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Beauty Garden Know Need
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I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

About Change Dwell Life
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William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

William Bennett's My Patron
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I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

Bird Free Often Want
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Enemy Friend Heart Hundred
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I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

Any Become Bit Broadway
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I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Always Said Money May
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

Cole Porter Enough First Five
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I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Bedroom Born Difference Does
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When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

Angels Become Cannot Die
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

Control Delivering Films Liked
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Brings False Heart Joyous
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I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.

Ambitious Been Old Somebody
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I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

Better Book Columns Gives
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Against Barriers Built Find
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I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

Able Am Angry Become
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Again All The World Born Born-Again
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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Ally Become Compassion Everything
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We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.
We've Had Be Creative
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I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

Admit To Drinking It
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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

Become Bitter Copper Gold
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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Blood Jet Poetry Stopping
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Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

Also Always Brought Christmas
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Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
Students Don't Know Who
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How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Frail Heart How Human
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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

Am Boundaries East Exist
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How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

How Can You Look
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Body Hid Hidden Mediums
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I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

Afraid Audience Being Being Afraid
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Beyond Field Ideas Meet
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Being Fellow Fellow Men Former
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Always Aspects Because Become
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Afterwards Breaks Broken Everyone
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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Been Done Gave Guess
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Like Nothing Pile Stinks
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Defeat Defeated Destroyed Made
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Any Artist Depression Good
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Always Drunk Keep Mouth
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Anybody Failure Interested Man
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Because Close Dangerously Everything Find
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But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

Balances Interest Life Long
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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Always Best Destroy Discouraged
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The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Always Burning Cold Cold War
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ability Almost Always Cowardice
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