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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Abroad Apt Discipline Home
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Civilization Clear Expanding Frontier
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When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

Abandon Altogether Anyway Back
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The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

Commercial Enterprise Government Improving
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No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

About Ask Change Forget
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Community Continually Ears Ever
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Contrition Deep Eloquently Grief
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Age Constant Grows Never
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Enmity Felicity Marriage Strife
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Charity Christmas Fire Flame
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Departing Distant Falls Friends
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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Approach Become Charm Distance
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Abundant Companionship Equal Good
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

Amazing Amazing Thing Ang Lee Lee
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

Actor Been Boy Career
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Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

Comedy Grant He Hugh
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.

Actor Better Bridges Even
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I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.

Also Always Anything Change
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I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about people that do stand-up.

About Comedians Cross I Think
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My security comes from the fact that I've never done a job for money.
Done Fact Job Money
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I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

Basically Been Done Films
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I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.

Anything Deep Deep Love Destroy
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I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.

Actor Dream Every I Think
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I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.

Agent Around Bushes Business
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Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.

Back Been Big Career
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It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.

Came Get Going Like
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Less Men Ought Than
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Became Block Granite Obstacle
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
Angry Enough Important Make
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Bad Bad Times Changes Fortune
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Accomplishment Builds Like Nothing
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Accomplishment Achieve Achievement Course
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The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it's an embarrassment of riches that I've got both.

Both Career Embarrassment Family
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I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.

Business Cement Concrete Condition
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I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the '50s.

Dark Grew Just Kid
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I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.

About Actor Any Being
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Element Fashion Great Silence
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Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.

Bad Care Certainly Don't Care
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Against Anything Deliberately Deserve
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I've been married one time and I have one daughter, who I love more than anyone in the world. And that's where my world is.

Anyone Been Daughter I Love
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My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut.

Always Anything Anything Else Attention
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I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Actions Actions Speak Defends Kind
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Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

American American Culture Culture Fence
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The biggest issue is muscle pliability. That's what I think the biggest secret to me is. What is muscle pliability? Muscle pliability is keeping your muscles long and soft.

Biggest I Think Issue Keeping
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I'm a pretty casual dresser. At home, it's probably whatever is functional to relax in, whether it's a pair of sweats or a pair of jeans.

Casual Dresser Functional Home
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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

First First Time How Learn
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Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
Also Blacks Call Hip-Hop
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I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

Anybody Cannot Everybody Hear
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I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

Anything Ashamed Did Never
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I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

Control Forgive Forgiven I Tried
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