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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Afterwards Digging Garden Holes
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I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
Cooking Dishes Else I Think
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I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

All Day Around Because Bed
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Abandoned Alone Just Like
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Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

About Because Diversion Incredible
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One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

Alive Because Born Breathe
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

Another Choice Combination English
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Goes Head I Write Lot
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People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

Angry Because Black Feeling
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I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

Age Anxiety Any Anything
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At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

Adored Associate Enormous Everyone
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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Does Essentially Loneliness Lonely
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I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Anything Doing Fact Good
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

About Army Done Her
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Character Consists Fourth Third
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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

About Doing Dream Engineers
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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

Career Concern Crucial Does
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For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Else Fail Find Journey
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Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

Always Around Better Bother
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I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright boys and girls. It spotted me when I was 14, and I owe a tremendous debt to my alma mater.

Always Am American Been
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Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.
Books God Honest Myself
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Aspiration Become Controlling Desire
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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Anything Courage Greatest Honor
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Circumstances Him Make Man
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If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Before Desire Good Just
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Beautiful Becomes Calmness Good
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They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Conquered Doubt Failure Fear
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Bring Church Does Find
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I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

About Bonds Did Dollars
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I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

Became Believed Cause Couple
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I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.

Bit Cut Down Like
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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
About Dollars Few Having
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I've been knocked down a lot of times.
Been Down Knocked Lot
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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Another Appreciative Christ Had
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
Double Expectations Myself Other
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The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

About Being Brown Down
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Argue Both Celebrate Differ
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Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

Bomb Consider Countries Endlessly
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You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble

Because Behind Happen How
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When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.

Any Badly Believe Border
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Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Aggression Forced Great Nothing
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Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

Care Claimed Government Needs
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Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.

Believe Bitcoin Legal Money
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When the dollar is in trouble, that will be one of the alternatives, and the more Bitcoins are used, the worse it will be for the dollar.
Alternatives Dollar More Trouble
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I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President

Bush Elected President Think
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I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

Develop Ground Like Things
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God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Does Fill Ghost God
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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

Better Get Hearing Hollywood
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Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

Although Easy John John Wayne
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