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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Excuse Young Heroes Heroines
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Studying Black Concert Pianists
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

Also Arranging Came Course
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

Always Apparent Background Front
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Am Debate Discussion Edward
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

Ability Advancement Allow Architecture
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

The Bible Cradle Wherein
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Adulthood Care Consequences Defining
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Miami was always a town that was kind to me as a wrestler. It's a great wrestling town, and it's a great town, period. There's so much to do in Miami.

Always Great Kind Me
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SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

Brothers BrothersAndSisters Got Great
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In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Alive Around Day Feel
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Burn Live Living Desire
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In war there is no substitute for victory.

Substitute Victory War
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Earth Only Opportunity Security
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

Life Short Easy Feel
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Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

About Back ByTheTime Day
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There's no excuse for the young...

Excuse Young
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Brave Could Joy Learn
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

About Among Breeze Flowers
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Enough Everybody Everything Happens
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Dark Experience Half Hour
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Food Love Than
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Right Now Think Censorship
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He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.

Think Write Talent
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Future Literary No Future Say
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Author Everyone Everywhere Exists
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Job Song World Middle East
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Any Call Exclude Mostly
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Amongst Art Artist Audience
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

Belong Change Growth Nothing
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I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.

Companies Doing Fact I Think
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I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

America Exactly Exactly What Go
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I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

About Anything Anything Else Competence
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Am Convinced I Am Innocence
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Authority Like Moral Moral Authority
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There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Angry Anything Blaming Creativity
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I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

American Between British Countries
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

Because Believed Desperate Everything
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There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.

Attempting Dissatisfaction Fact Life
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

Always Clothes Doing Felt
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There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

Wrong Prove Bit Little
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

About Carpet Come Comfortable
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Act Ashamed Closet Gonna
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

Able Because Defy Ends
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I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

Evermore Feel Growing Growing Up
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Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Reason Playing Ounce Each
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

Balancing Best Better Do Your Best
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Also Book Considered Hip-Hop
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

About Always Attached Craving
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