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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

Audience Back Become Culture
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'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Art Crazy Insane Law
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Art Break Bringing Cultural
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

Although Another Beginnings Brooklyn
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Care Fear Man Who
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Best Everything Evil Necessary
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Condemns He Man Ready
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Children Doll Girl Her
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Freedom Guaranteed Only Own
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Confuse Everywhere News Newspapers
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They say women and music should never be dated.

Dated Music Never Say
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Each Friendship Incompatible Other
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Fishes Like Little Make
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Audience Best Best Way Laugh
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Better Could Critic How
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies Country Different Every
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Always Company End Feel
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Bad How Journey Life
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Books Everything Friends I Love
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Alive Bring Disadvantages Enough
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Appreciated Husband Little Pitied
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Art Away Betray Charm
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Brought Continue Did Ever
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girl Like Little Played
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Alone Anticipation Calamity Future
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Blind Country Curiosity Goes
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law Men Poor Rich
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

America Just Light Missile
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Diminish Far Liberties Our
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He who stops being better stops being good.
Being Better Good He
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Been Countries Destruction Development
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

Benefits Democrats Failed Fight
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Call Captain Else Fights
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Deceive Integrity May Never
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Nature can do more than physicians.
More Nature Physicians Than
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Cheering Going Hanged Much
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Been Flock Glad Government
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Dog Door Perpetually Side
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Being Cannot Gets Good
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Find First First Things Go
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Anything Bit Even Feign
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Always Any Complete Complete Freedom
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Actor Director Going He
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

Back Because Every Faith
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Arm Blood Cinema Cut
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Because Children Delight Discovered
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