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The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

Admit Itself Jobs People
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Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Actually Breasts Having Large
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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Convincing Health Inequality Instability
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Kings are mere pawns these days.

Kings Pawns Days
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Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Always Been Intrinsic Me
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Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

Bad Barbie Because Grow
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I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.

Blond Body Boyfriend Disappeared
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Some of us are having a wild time, we are constantly changing while remaining the same…we are a little insane, and love is the reason for the malady.

Wild time Changing Insane Love
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You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Another Because Hierarchy Means
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Although my songs reflect many issues which are relevant in my society. I believe that human relations are the site where all issue emerge.

My song Relevant Society Human relations
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We are changing lives one at a time, change isn't coming, it's happening
Changing Lives Time Happening
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I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

Easily Me Person Pleased
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I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don’t think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn’t fear the knife because it is dead already. I have a dead goat syndrome

Strikes Demonstrations Get worse Goat
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If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

Audience Feel FeelGood Good
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I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

Because Conversation Like Makes
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I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

Again Around Before Business
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It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

Find Happiness Impulsive Life
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With the kinds of progress we’re seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

Progress Africa Kinds Gets better
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There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Better Different DifferentKinds Fit
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I believe in the Creator. I don't believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.

I believe The creator God
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Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

Before slavery Medicine Malaria
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We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of good governance, respect for human rights, rule of law.

Africa Dividend Democracy Economic
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Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.

Talking Ask questions Veto votes
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Emerged Eventually Kept Me
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Spirituality is when we can't explain everything in life, totally. So, we have a spiritual meaning for it; we don't know why we are here really.

Spirituality.explain Life Meaning
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Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Act Advantage Always Audience
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Character Doing First Gonna
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Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die someday. So if you like, remember me.

Someone ask Legacy Answers
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Back Crazy Drives Even
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I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.

Practice Teach Trumpet Play
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I have a dead goat syndrome
Dead Goat Syndrome
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My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough you will find some faults in me, so keep an open mind.

Children Perfect father Old enough Open mind
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

About Anyone Emotional Even
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Become Comedy Doing Had
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Future Good Had Homeless
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

American Different Dream Lives
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

About Becomes Feeling Funny
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
About Age Every Feared
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

Comedy Coming Hear Kind
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

Glad Improvised Most Scene
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

About Complaining Complaints Instead
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

Bleak Days Doing Some
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

Around Good Homeless Living
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Women love a self-confident bald man.

Bald Love Man Women
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

Began Country Dawn Home
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

After Been Better Day
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Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

Able Bad Birds Deaf
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We must do what is necessary within the rules of ethics. Once Africa understands this, the values of integrity will become the norm, and will promote private sector development.

Do Necessary Rule Ethics
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Being Capable Larger Laureate
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

Affectionate Around Day Every
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