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We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

Squares Peculiar Balls World
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If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

Willie Nelson Had Been
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One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

Art Maturity Men
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Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

Cacophony Enough Grass Life
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I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.
Art Knows
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It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

Art Fall Cracks
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I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.

Spiritual Crazy Inspiration
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I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Support Gay Marriage Believe
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We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

Got Clear Some Room
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What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

Important Acting Actors
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Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Musicians Run Can State
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

Another Appropriate Discipline Inventions
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There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

Advantage Because Been Just
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The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.

About Assemble Little Now
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Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.
Attention Deliver Had Once
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When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

When Governor Be The
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Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Age Carry Claimed Could
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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Business Living Make Mom
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We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

First Executions Were Funding
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

About All Day Away Breeze
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Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Politics The Only Field
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Am Breath Deep Deep Breath
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But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

About Absolutely Believe Bin
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

Although Comedy Like Much
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

About Creativity Nemy Everything
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
Comedy Like Romantic
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I'd like to do more family dramas.

Dramas Family Like More
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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Accept Apparently Both Cambridge
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You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

Article Every Foolishness Know
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Art Call Could Dying
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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

And Musicians Better Run
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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Absorb Attention Away Beg
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The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

Beloved Body Contain Could
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The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themselves in the mirror.

Democrats Republic Same Guy
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The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Always Autumn Beyond Condition
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

Borrowed Earth Fell Forever
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I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

Character Dame Living Made
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I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Remember First Half Life
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The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

The Only Currency Value
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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

Days There Many People
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I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

About Change Dwell Life
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William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

William Bennett's My Patron
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Enemy Friend Heart Hundred
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No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

Nothing Has Changed My
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

Control Delivering Films Liked
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I see an issue I like, and I support it.

See Issue Like Support
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That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Brings False Heart Joyous
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I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

Better Book Columns Gives
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Again All The World Born Born-Again
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Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Ally Become Compassion Everything
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