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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Ashamed Ask Attribute Been
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Allowing Another Beautiful Building
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Afghanistan Even Even Now Form
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The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it's the parts you don't often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.

The Point Job Entertain
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Achieving Successful Relationship Disaster
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Atrocious Black Business Climate
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Peace Form Cases
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.

Important Answer Formal
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A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

Afghanistan Anytime Democracy Dream
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A lot of my fans come from the SoundCloud platform.

Come Fans Lot Platform
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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

Acting Avoid Each Letting
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If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.
People Pray Darkness Lot
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

About Consciousness Heroic Our
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Education Formal Formal Education Fortune
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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Born Change Character Fingerprints
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

Almost Always Barbarian Condemnation
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A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Memoir Version Perspective Omit
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Women Working together Informed Educated
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Another Colors Creating Form
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Man Performs Engenders Bear
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People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

People Must Have Righteous
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

Every Every Night I Wish Iron
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Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it's not my thing; it's an ANC policy.

About Implement Leader Policy
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None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

Building Claim Former Happen
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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Best Different First More
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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

About Forum Frequent Group
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Appealed Box Burning Cap
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I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

Batman Belt Everything Form
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Planet Force Among Feared
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Mental Bonds Homes Strike
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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Cycles Process Vision Remains
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Assassination Censorship Extreme Form
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

Don't Marry Man Reform
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Performance An Ounce Worth
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Forms Opinion Support Public
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Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.

Because Competitive Corporation Corporations
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We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.

Communications Insecure Live Platform
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I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

Call Friends Gaga Me
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms

Actually Affects Around Awareness
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Difficult Element Exist Fact
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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Accept Certain Inhibitions Uniform
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I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Alone Am Believe Could
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Advance Brought Equality Ever
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Information that doesn't lead to transformation is entertainment.

Information Transformation Lead Entertainment
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

There Better Adversity Every
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America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Against America Cannot Clear
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

Certain CertainWay Chance Explore
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