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I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Really Understand Contract Marriage
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Whatever age you are when you find your entrepreneurial bone- don’t be scared to take the leap… because you may fly…you may just fly.

Whenever age Entrepreneurial bone Scared Fly
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Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show.

Another Anything Connected Drama
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If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.

After Bar First First Time
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I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

Anymore Anything Concerned Enough
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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Sometimes I'll think, 'That was a really nice day. I ate well, I exercised, I called some friends, wasn't working too hard,' but I rarely have one of those.

Ate Day Friends Hard
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Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap.

Closet Closets Dad Dress
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.

Acting Always American American Idol
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Bad Bad One Cause Good
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Anything Asleep Conduct His
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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Advantage Bargain Discontented Excellent
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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Along Articles Brings Dwarf
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Alone Any Asked Cottage
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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Another Button Cause Life
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Admires After Centuries Conservative
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Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

No-One Prepared Some Some Things
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Artist Artwork Care Chance
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Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Did Ears Give Give Me
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Because Carries Certain Dangers
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Agreement Applied Blend Blow
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Antagonistic Between Commitment Doubt
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Absence Caress Done Dreams
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Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Abuse Comrade Everyone Occasion
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Consider Feel I Feel I Think
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Catastrophe Clinical Conversations Days
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Young ones must have the fear of God in them, they must respect themselves and others, they must respect their profession, they must have the love of God, and obey the laws of the land. They mustn’t be involved in criminal activities that would stain their family name, and society.

Young ones Fear God Respect themselves
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I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

Before Blood Breath Caused
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I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

Anyone Boxing Bullied Camp
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A lot of times, we think we have to do it alone so we don’t appear weak, but it’s totally okay to ask for help

Times Think Appear weak Help
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
Amazing Best Crowd Feeling
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I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

Be Careful Both Careful Drink
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Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

Am Being Family Fan
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I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Able Bad Does Enjoy
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The pursuit of excellence is a choice available to anyone from anywhere. No matter how bad the hand that faith has apportioned to you.

Pursuit Excellence Available No matter
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I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me.

Always Asked Finally Girl
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I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

Along Because Cheating Cry
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Leave no one behind. Be inclusive. Whatever you choose to do in life, always remember this: involving others in designing solutions that affect them will ensure ownership and ultimately sustainability.

Leave No one Inclusive Choose
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The mighty ones are active, the lazy ones are passive…both mighty and lazy ones are all important. No one is useless in this life.

Mighty ones Lazy Passive All important
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Around Genuine Hanging Known
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Always Close Closed Down
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The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways - through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Drama Climax Two ways Terrorism
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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Always Blend Burn Clear
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You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
Bit Everyone Feeling Little
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Leader Men Turn Back
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Thinking Lower grades Comparable Paper money
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Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

Again Animate Discouraged Elaborate
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