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My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Ever Known Life Like
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The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

Clothing Colors Express Extension
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When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

About Delusional Enough Important
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

American Blind Food Leading
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The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

Be Happy Before Being Being Selfish
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When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.
Bad Neighborhood Poodle Side
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Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
Committed Fully Institution Marriage
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The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

Enough Enough Money Evil Having
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Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Biggest Biggest Influence Books Comic
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I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mountains. I'm always bugged by the notion that I can't do everything.

Always Climb Everything Learn
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Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.

American Because Bigger Both
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I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

Although Back Bush Clinton
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Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

Believe Conservative Fiscally Giving
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I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

Calendar Figure Life Live
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

City Evening Eye Glass
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If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Buy Likes Need Selling
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Dogs Goes Got Long
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I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.

Always Become Been Mature
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The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Biggest Divorce Financial Life
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Die Enough Everything God
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Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

About Any Calories Days
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Answer Ask Correction Disorder
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I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

Attention Cook Focusing His
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

Find Identity Keep Mind
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Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

Ability Am Being Between
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

Add God Greatest Included
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

Begging Believe Bit Get
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I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Assistant Bodyguard Class Economy
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Direct Everything Experience Instead
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
Alone Become Billion Careless
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Attention Directed Greater Lesser
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.

Around Because Bonds Come
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Articles Concerning Flood Grateful
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Along Every Five Hundred
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Anything Becomes Closely Looked
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I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

Ability Australians Day Education
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It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

Across Australians Country Experiences
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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

Door Enjoyable Executive Government
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

Aboriginal Ant Anyone Anyone Else
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

About Art Australia Beauty
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I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

Actually Around Business Clear
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

Certain Concrete Large Limited
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Become Blank Definition Other
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Becoming Each Extensions Laws
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Beings Leads Our Poetry
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

Assurance Been Himself Learned
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Certainly Change Directly Enterprise
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

Burning Other Past Poem
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Along Cannot Day Each
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Actual Besides Class Differs
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