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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Believe Defeated Evil Final
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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Events Political Today TV
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion Spirituality Without You
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I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Athletic Bright Funny Just
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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

Classify Comedy Feel I Feel
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Always Anything Architecture Else
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The most important thing in a fighter is his mentality. Do you really believe that you're the baddest dude on the planet?

Believe Dude Fighter His
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After a loss, you have to reassess a little bit and be realistic.
After Bit Little Little Bit
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I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.

About Always Am Been
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I don't want to be the guy who, 'Oh, he's falling apart. He's a little punchy. Maybe it's time to stop.'

Apart Falling Guy He
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Dealing Difficult Even Existence
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Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
Ability Activity Good Good Writing
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Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

Authors Brutality Decay Destruction
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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

Alive Because Close Devastating
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Feeling Important Language Listen
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Alive Aware Become Being
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

Because Coming End Everything
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

Accessible Around Cities Clusters
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Bits Conceptual Cuts Fragments
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D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

Am Back Blood Cannot
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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

Afforded Aware Been Brings
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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

American Black Definition I Think
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We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

Ability Believe Church Define
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

About Before Crime Current
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

Comedy Funny Little Play
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

Confident Dead Fall Happen
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Arts Encouraged Had Helped
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I love physicality. I love movement very much.

I Love Love Movement Much
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Always Anniversary Before Gave
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Fact Like Only Out
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

Ability Driving Get Helped
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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Absorb Education Effects Expression
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Illusion Merely Persistent Reality
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Care Course God Intellect
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Certain Far Laws Mathematics
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One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Disgrace Good Government Key
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

Always Bad Bad Mood Diet
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Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

Manage Politicians Talk
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I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

Based Capability Honesty Judge
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Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.
Ability Enjoy Laugh Life
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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Course Exactly Good Life
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I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

Daughter Get Great I Think
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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every Literature Man Memory
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Each Immortality Life Makes
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We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

Culture Economics Interested Manufacturing
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Bed Being Home I Can
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That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Accidental Almost Beginning Career
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Bear Beauty Beholder Children
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Basically what I'm trying to tell you is that it's almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you're in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don't recommend it.

Almost Basically Being Besides
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