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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Changing Changing The World Creative Everybody
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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

Audience Direct Film Hear
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Affliction Crutch Desirable Frightening
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Bread Does Effort Force
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I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Anything Away Done Enjoy
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Did End Failure Hide
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Albums Dough Heavy Huge
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

Advice Away Keep Lips
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I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right and do so in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.

Accept Constitution Exercise Just
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Couple Fourteen Glass Me
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Abstain Act Conveyed Enough
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

American Beautiful Birth Canal
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Faith Jewish Life Orthodox
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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Slavery Abolished Thinking
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Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Animate Before Chocolate Complex
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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Difficult Done Earliest Figure
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My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.

Big Embarrass Fuzzy Grandmother
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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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At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Implicitly Poetry Politics Twenty
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
Talent Burden Joy Planet
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Learn Get up Love Served
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Another Darkness Emptiness Fell
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

About Advice Anything He
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Anything He History Learn
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Every Man Meet Wants
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Forces Threat Nation Great
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

Absorb Accept Capacity Enormous
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Advantage Great GreatAdvantage Home
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Angeles Awful Everybody Famous
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

Common Context Cut Earned
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Characters Hemingway Learned Listen
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I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

Altar Beginning Bible Boy
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

Biggest Girl Grow Grow Up
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

Actually Australia Because Caught
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Disloyal Confuse Honest Doctrine
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Clothed Cold Every Fed
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

About Album Also Away
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Bottom Dropped Got House
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I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Expect Focus Me People
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Home Far One Number
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Defend Within Far Trying
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Adult Age Eight Expose
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Advantage Any Appears Cannot
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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Always Beings Demand Get
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Fighting Hatred Invariably Lies
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Against Classes Country Foreign
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Character Country Duty FromTimeToTime
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

You Can't Separate Peace
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Power Defender Freedom Greater
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