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You win some & lose some but what matters is the learning process.

You win Lose some Learning process
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The next generation of superheroes are not going to come from Cybertron; they are going to be made in classrooms, which is why investment in education is crucial.

Next generation Superheroes Education
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It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Also American American People Believe
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A woman becoming financially independent doesn’t equate to ‘I don’t need a man’. It just means, she brings more to the table. Instead of being a financial burden, she becomes a value addition.

Woman Financially independent Equate
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I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Always Am Approach Best
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I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Bed Days Final Had
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Asked Between Bring Campaign
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

About Bible Book Carter
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Any Avoid Betray Confidence
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Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Ancient Difficult Emerges Essentially
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Sometimes the motivator needs motivation. Sometimes the encourager needs encouragement. Sometimes the inspirer needs inspiration.

Motivator Motivation Encouragement Inspiration
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The surge in inventors and creative minds means we have the brains to change our story. What we lack is leadership.

Surge Inventors Creative mind Our story
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'Corona be leveler, corona be leveler' no mean say you den minister go fit sleep one hospital room for Ghana. VIP treatment still dey.

Corona Leveler Minister One hospital
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The lovemaking that conceived me must have been done deep in the night. It's my most productive time.

Lovemaking Conceived The night Deep
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For a man who is hungry, the speech of his leader can never be great if it fails to mention food for him.

Hungry Speech Leader Food
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You can only have money in your pocket if you work and earn. Nobody is going to come to your house and say put this in your pocket. You have to come out and take the opportunity that presents themselves. Learn a skill, go into the world of work and you will be able to put money in your pocket

Money Work Earn Pocket
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My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

Age Around Day DayAndAge
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I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Best Come General Give
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

Believe Cats Cemetery Dogs
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Details Explore Hinge Intimate
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Always Away Child Childish
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

About Because Elements Language
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Need Schools Sometimes Things
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

About Ever Gesture Good
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Chemist Could Ends Exciting
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
After Amazing Another Happened
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When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

Things Bad Best time Reinvent
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It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
Great day White people Black Latinos
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I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

Come from Background Loving couples
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I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

Want Nobody Only way Somebody
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When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

Look at Gospel Speaking How
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I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

Difficult childhood Surrounded Parent
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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

About black White Many people Mixed backgrounds
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.

Spent days Answering question Thank me
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Love comedy Exercise Writing Years
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Working hard Very important Get anywhere
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Story Star wars Classic one Retold
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Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Issue Achievement Set Realistic goals
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A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

People Certain things Keep going Good
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

High school Interested History People do
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Arts Been Every Go
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Before Evidence Existed Front
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Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated .

Making Film Sieve Element
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A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Special effect Telling story Pretty boring
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The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Secret Give up Something worthwhile
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Loved photography Crazy thing Day nobody
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There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Kids Inspired me Adult Interested
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