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I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

Alive American American Dream Band
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
About Anything Delusional Life
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My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Ever Known Life Like
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The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

Clothing Colors Express Extension
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When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

About Delusional Enough Important
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

American Blind Food Leading
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When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Air Clark Daily Fly
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The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Be Happy Before Being Being Selfish
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Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
Committed Fully Institution Marriage
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The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

Enough Enough Money Evil Having
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Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Biggest Biggest Influence Books Comic
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First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.

Beautiful Ever Face First
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If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

Anything Better Building Doing
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Because History Like Loved
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Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.

American Because Bigger Both
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Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

Believe Conservative Fiscally Giving
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The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

Backward Enough Going Just
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There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.

Break Ever Heart Mother
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

City Evening Eye Glass
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

Accumulate Anything Appetite Down
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The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Biggest Divorce Financial Life
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Die Enough Everything God
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Answer Ask Correction Disorder
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I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

Attention Cook Focusing His
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Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

Ability Am Being Between
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

Add God Greatest Included
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I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Assistant Bodyguard Class Economy
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Direct Everything Experience Instead
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
Alone Become Billion Careless
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Attention Directed Greater Lesser
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

Australian Child Country Equality
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I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

Ability Australians Day Education
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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

Door Enjoyable Executive Government
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

Aboriginal Ant Anyone Anyone Else
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

About Art Australia Beauty
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I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

Actually Around Business Clear
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Become Blank Definition Other
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Becoming Each Extensions Laws
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

Act Chance Disaster Discovery
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

Assurance Been Himself Learned
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Certainly Change Directly Enterprise
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

Burning Other Past Poem
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Along Cannot Day Each
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Actual Besides Class Differs
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I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

Break Chance Eye Give
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

Coming Fans Feel God
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

Audience Began Forget Fun
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I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Appeal Beautiful Cool Embrace
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Album Aspect Every Liked
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There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
Certain Discuss Keep Life
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