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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Anyone Bald Confident Diamond
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Character Doing First Gonna
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Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die someday. So if you like, remember me.

Someone ask Legacy Answers
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Back Crazy Drives Even
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I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.

Practice Teach Trumpet Play
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Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
Every Just Precarious Relationship
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I have a dead goat syndrome
Dead Goat Syndrome
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We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

Teach Children History Understand
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Army Because Bush End
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My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough you will find some faults in me, so keep an open mind.

Children Perfect father Old enough Open mind
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

About Anyone Emotional Even
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
Audience Energy Feed Just
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
After Just Laughs Really
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Become Comedy Doing Had
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Happily, there’s a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We’re seeing a lot of – actually in Africa – we’re seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

Happily Brain Africa Ghana
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Future Good Had Homeless
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

American Different Dream Lives
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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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Truth is, I enjoy what I am doing. If you don’t enjoy what you are doing, stop it.

Truth Enjoy Doing Stop it
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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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I always tell my staff, the day you think of going to work and your heart jumps, resign from that job.

My staff Work Heart jumps
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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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You must have joy in whatever you are doing, because what’s in this life?

Have joy Doing Life
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

About Complaining Complaints Instead
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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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You can start a business and not have the aptitude for that business.

Start Business Aptitude Business
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

About Art Could Fail
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The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

Anymore Change I Can Only
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The best thing you can ever do is to make sure that the bets you take are long term bets.

Best thing Make sure Bets Long term
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If you by any chance believe I have done well, you have the capacity to do better.

Chance Believe Done well Capacity
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

Bleak Days Doing Some
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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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When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
Complete Complete Freedom Concerned Freedom
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Women love a self-confident bald man.

Bald Love Man Women
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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 are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

After Been Better Day
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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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Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

Able Bad Birds Deaf
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We must do what is necessary within the rules of ethics. Once Africa understands this, the values of integrity will become the norm, and will promote private sector development.

Do Necessary Rule Ethics
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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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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

Affectionate Around Day Every
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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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I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

Am Comedian Could Feel
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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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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

About Audience Energy Feed
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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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