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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Acknowledge Being Being Smart Books
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Believes Difficult Necessarily True
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Approach Child Difference Going
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

Numbers People Poetry Resource
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

Different Earth Feeling Nobody
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Absolutely Actor Believe Bleed
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Because Just Just Because Mean
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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Actions Consistent Consistently Control
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Beings Home Human Planet
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Arbitrary Between Boundary Earth
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Clearly Confused Credulous Dangers
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As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.

California Country Difficult Going
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Begin Fail Lie Poem
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Beliefs Events Lives Mean
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

About Act Beings Determine
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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Attach Become Environment Events
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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Doing Know Knowing Not Knowing
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Basically Breaking Breaking Up Come
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To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

About Being Business Essentials
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I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

Another Big Big Challenge Challenge
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If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

Appointment Business Date Decades
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All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

Business Important Keep Reputation
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It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

Common Entrepreneur Every Metric
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Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Any Call Else Fun
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Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

Business Job Just Life
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It's rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Another Enough Immediately Income
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The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Excellence Free Information Kind
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I think it's good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older - it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

Balanced Better Bit Gets
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It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Exciting Friendship God Grows
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When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

Artist Calling Casual Choice
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The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

Changed Cling God Keep
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When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.

Been Financial I Think People
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A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Aid Create Holy Repent
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

Calculate Circular Complicated Importance
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Advances Around Ask Been
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Bed Dream Dreaming Gone
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
Google Great May Still
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Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

America Business Job Parent
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It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

Grown Interact Learned Lives
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It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

Definitely Draining Dream Friends
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I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Ahead Believe Forge Pessimism
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

Allowed Connecting Everyone Instead
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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Abandoned Because Distraction Early
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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Away Because Easier Fading
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If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.

Again Building Changed Dying
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