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I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Like Six Different Schools
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It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Sometimes Feels Like Strange
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Any Deceive Deceived Devoted
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

Condemnation Fear God Let Us
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

Both Brought Earth End
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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind.

Little Kid When Don't
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

Because Christ Empowers Endure
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Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.
Become Bound Christ Even
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There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Christ Death First Flesh
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They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.

Cannot Even Faith Flesh
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

Back Chew Cigarette Going
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

Better Brought Earthly Foes
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Drunk Illumination Like Much
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

Great GreatTime Stand Time
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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Easiest Effective Most Somebody
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

Feel Handle Hard Hard Time
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

Close Consciousness Feeling Harder
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Actually Connection Good Got
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

Big Crawl Cross Four
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
Been Number People Shocked
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

Actually Behalf Done Events
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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

Got Interesting Oh Realized
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Almost Any Believe Call
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

About Batting Get Give
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

About Edit Everything Influenced
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Money don't make me I make money

Money Me Make money
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Being Fact Go Great
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It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Am Baseball Bridge Does
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I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

Great Great Thing Interested Interview
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I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

Don't Hate Women They
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I never cheat, Yoruba boys and we never cheat

Yoruba Boys Never cheat
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
Always Been Crowd Intoxicating
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A lot of truth is said in jest.

Lot Truth Said Jest
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I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

Bubble Little Live My Own
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These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

These Times So Hard
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Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

About Care Don't Care Honestly
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

I Tried Job Jobs Long
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

Both Breakfast Day Desk
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I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

Might Talk About Killing
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

Almost AlmostAll Baseball Effect
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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

Am Anything Better Big
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I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

I'm Stupid Ugly Dumb
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

Aware Because Broadcast Corny
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I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Am Whatever Say Am
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

Eat General Insane Kings
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Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Somewhere Deep Down There's
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

American Anymore Barely Best
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Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Anybody With Sense Humour
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

Any Class College Fiction
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