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I have to be seen to be believed.

Believed Seen
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Castle Dublin Garden Here
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

All My Heart All My Life Heart Life
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

Describe Better Consider Romantic
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Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.
Believe Fate Forward
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

Person Truly Happy
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To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.
Past Miss Opportunities Blessings
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Relationship Untrue Partnership
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Achieving Successful Relationship Disaster
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Love Foundation Cornerstone Complete
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

Because Black Dignified Dignity
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

Almost Around Just Life
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Arts Defense Emotional Important
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Introvert Environment Subject Startling
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Atrocious Black Business Climate
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Rome Create Empire Meeting
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

Diana Ever Felt Forget
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

English Incompetence Sincerity
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As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
Closeness Relationship Sex Patch
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Atmosphere Attended Been Celebrating
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Lying Struggle Down
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Motivation Believe Philosophical
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Better Children Every Generation
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I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Ask Because Embarrassed Every
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I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Another Believes Kind Man
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Afghanistan Am Been Being
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Action Actions Consequences Every
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Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Alive Fiction Kept Literary
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Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Afghanistan Almost Conservative Countryside
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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Burden Culture Entire Kind
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For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

Heaven Bits
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I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

Ancient Child Father Grandmother
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I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

Enjoy Family Life Live
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Being Doctor Good Liked
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Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

After Before Blown Either
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Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

Thinking Phones Talking
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A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

Afghanistan Anytime Democracy Dream
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You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

Because Body Listen Listening
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Religion is just mind control.
Control Just Mind Religion
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Actually Boo Got Many
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Concealing Language Large Tool
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One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Area Deserted Know Like
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You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

Day Every Every Day Feel
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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
Foot Hands Life Step
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Cynical Disappointed Every Idealist
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Among Desires Dreamer Dreams
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You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

Bar Candy Chocolate Eating
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Blossoms Fruit Life Like
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