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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it.

The House Important Thing
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Hopeful To Embrace One
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

I Never Think Anything
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Don't Understand How Good
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Literature Sucks You Into
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My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Aim Concentrated Women Learn
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I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Abuse Basis Being Bullied
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“I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion”

Regards Education Task Survival
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Used Think Religion Just
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Readers Fiction Read Think
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“Your disability is your opportunity.”
Disability Your Opportunity
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Love Developing Children Characters
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“The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”
Early Church Married Poverty
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I'm really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!

Boots Gold Got Just
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“Imagination is the other end of Reality.”
Imagination End Reality
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“Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.”

Great Man Reside Beneath
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Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Also Created God He
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Business Changing Days Getting
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

Actor Agenda Never Political
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The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

About Defects Health Little
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Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Attitude Church Committed Could
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
Wise Learn Words Wisecracks
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Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

Between Church Credibility Faithful
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Bit Cold Just Less
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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Along Attitude Benefit Change
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I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Accurate Am Definition Figure
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A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

Always Another Approved Asked
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

Evening Higher Life Morning
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

Box Different Everybody Get
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Affected Attention Attention Span Brain
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I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

About Box Excited Hours
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I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.
Cause Game I Think Think
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
Being Better Fake I Think
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Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

Always Bit Easy Evolving
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As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.

About Actor Correct Do The Right Thing
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

About Fans Get Just
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I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Bit Feminism I Think Little
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Mine Networking Personalities Some
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Bad Ballplayer Bit Even
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

About Expect How Little
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Words Solitude Needs Friendship
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Aroused Attracts Being Live
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Abstraction Beauty Believe Change
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

World Freed Human Discover
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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

Soft Money Will Find
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Some suggest that, as a woman, I meddle in political affairs and need to be 'put in my place.'
Suggest Woman Meddle Political
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I am committed to growing participation in the political process and doing it the right way.

Committed Growing Participation Political
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I know that when we interact with those we fear and hate, we will find commonality.

Interact Fear Hate Commonality
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When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.

People Fear Politics Division
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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

Let Me Say This
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