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I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
Admit Cover Honored Time
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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 wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

Any Become Bit Broadway
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However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

Alone Am Ashamed Come
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

Cole Porter Enough First Five
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When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

Angels Become Cannot Die
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I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.

Ambitious Been Old Somebody
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I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.

Got Map Me Put
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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 attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

Appeal Attend Few Just
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Against Barriers Built Find
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I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

Able Am Angry Become
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Everything's coming up roses - for me.
Coming Everything Me Roses
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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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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

Anything Cole Porter Four Goes
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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

Become Bitter Copper Gold
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Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.

Any Audience Facing Gets
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There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

Again Go Go Home Ground
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Body Hid Hidden Mediums
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I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

Afraid Audience Being Being Afraid
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Affair Discover Down Else
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Beyond Field Ideas Meet
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Widow. The word consumes itself.
Consumes Itself Widow Word
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Being Fellow Fellow Men Former
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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Am How I Am Important
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Always Aspects Because Become
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Afterwards Breaks Broken Everyone
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I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Been Done Gave Guess
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Anybody Failure Interested Man
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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Always Best Destroy Discouraged
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Allowed Deal Game Golf
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We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

Being Benefit Federal Fullest
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Crime How Justified Matter
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Alcohol Down Flame Go
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Butterfly Did Dust He
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Beat Establish Image Me
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

American American Literature Book Huckleberry Finn
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

About Above Being Dignity
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Best Better Good Good Luck
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It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

Always Cake Find Game
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

American American History Event History
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Another Details Died Distinguish
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Choose Chose Had Me
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If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Anything Controversial He Individual
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Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Chief Direction Had Influence
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You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Anymore Around Because Conference
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Continue Death End Enough
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The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

American American People Directly Entitled
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

All My Life First First Time Life
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If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

American Character Handout Impoverished
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