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This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Stage Longer Position Lucky
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So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Weird Standing Real Life
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.

Heavy Success Light Begin
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I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

Storyteller Love Being Telling
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There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

Each Looking Right Activism
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Alter Altering Attitudes Discovery
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Art Being Knowing Overlook
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

About Another Being Currents
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Alter Altering Attitudes Beings
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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

Brave Innovative Thinking Out
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God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody’s appendage? she prayed desperately.

Create Full Being Woman
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Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

Condemn Guilty Being Lovely
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You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Lower Being Person Must
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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

Ireland Interview Kathy Boring
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Being Government Humorist Trick
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Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.

Born Being Earthly Divinity
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There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.

Wrong Poor Being Everything
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There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.

Nothing Upset More Dad
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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Am Never Writing Breakup
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Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

Hoping Figure Sense Travelling
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It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

Friendly Face Great Bad
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When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

Waste Enjoy Being Onstage
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Being at a club that supported me meant a lot.

Being Club Lot Me
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Failure Should Teacher Undertaker
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

About Again Being Damn
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When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Shooting Paid Set Worth
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Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

Incredible Engine Close Exprience
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

Point Independent Real View
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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

Identity Born Being Matter
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

Communicate Higher Practical Level
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Some mistakes will be made along the way. That’s good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We’ll find the mistakes. We’ll fix them.

Mistake Good Decision Along
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Your consciousness of who you are in Him is what actually determines what you can handle. Your knowledge of who you are in Him is what determines how much command over affairs on earth you will have, because being in command demands that you be strong and of a good courage.

Courage Good Strong Demand
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The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Everything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. – But it takes away from the reason we do it.

Essence Same Formula Reason
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To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

Aspirations Chance Committed Democratic
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

Being Committed Generations Learn
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Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Being Being Nice Easy Think
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I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Pity Worth Admire Creature
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Even though no human being is perfect, we always have the chance to bring what’s unique about us to life in a redeeming way.

Human Being Chance Life
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Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

Skin Color Defined Live
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Don't drop your burdens on people without also being willing to drop some blessings on them, too.

Burden Drop Being Blessing
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Worth Salt Ready Risk
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The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they’re generally not the ones being touted in the news.

Shows Millions World News
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Being Character Emergencies Failure
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I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

Afraid End Natural Win
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I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Miss Home Physical Friend
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The layman is delighted to learn that after all, in spite of science being so impossibly difficult to understand, Scientists Are Human!

Layman Scientist Human Science
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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Structure Piano Flight Stair
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Accepted Being Desperately Grew
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We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Able Being Both Deep
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