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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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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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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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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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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

Glad Improvised Most Scene
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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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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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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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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 see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

About Am Arts Federal
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

Being Cross Dealing Get
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Ability Alive Come Extremely
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Alive Back Became Childhood
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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Because Cheerful Curious Double
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It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.

Because Beliefs Christian Colors
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Able Art Beyond Could
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The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

Truth Man Calculated Sum
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The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

Community Every Gay Get
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I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

Sincere towards Experimenting Fills Enthusiasm
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I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

America Because Been Come
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
By nature Experimentalist Believe
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Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Able Attack Break Buddha
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They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

Any Around Been Done
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Fly Highest Imagination Kite
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Ignorance sheer Confidence Something about Profession
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My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.

Along Always Arts Bad
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What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.

Classic Did Era Frame
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If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.
Front Gifted Had Instead
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I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Age Almost Digital Happy
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Its ok to follow a few trends here and there but dont be that person who always has to follow every trend! If it isn't putting money in your pocket, stop wasting your time.

Trends Follow Money Pocket
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Don't waste your years focusing on others! focus on yourself.....work on yourself.....educate yourself....get creative.....have time for yourself.

Don't waste Focusing Educate yourself Work
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Hard times...but God always comes through.
Hard times God Always Come
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Beginning Bodies Desire Driven
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Am Doing Each Great
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If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Alien Chunk Go Going
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Understanding someone is a rare level of intimacy.

Understanding Rare Level Intimacy
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Them no Dey look another person fish go soak garri o, the person fit change him mind say him wan use him fish make stew.

Dey Person Garri Change
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Love is not love until you share it. Love is not love until you give it away. Sometimes the person you should share it with is yourself but unfortunately most people don’t think they are deserving of their own Love.

Love Share it Give it Yourself
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Religion and tribalism are the first two to arrive at the meeting when Nigerians gather. There is nothing more divisive than them. Imagine both in one room and To make matters worse, they both want to chair the meeting. Chaos!

Religion Tribalism Nigerian Divisive
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At this point, love is all we need. No judging, No hatred, No religious division, No politicking, no racial discrimination. Just Love for Humankind.

Love No judging No hatred Division
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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Agreeable Antagonist Courage Everything
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I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

About China Delhi Doing
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Aversion Begin Little Matrimony
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Certainly Impossible Nothing Physically
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Facts He His Imagination
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People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why it's so addictive, I must say.

Addictive Doing Every Every Time
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I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.

Artists Because Lot Much
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Imagination creates reality.

Creates Imagination Reality
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Claim Does Freedom Gives
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Art Himself His Man
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