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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Believe Books Expect Immortality
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Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Actually Books Classics Find
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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

City Encourages Logic Madness
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I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Channel Feel I Feel I Think
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I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Clear Head Idea Life
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When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

Working on Period Depression Keep busy
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Became Dark Father Filter
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For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Believed Bones Broken Caused
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Everyone Follow Made Market
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I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.

Am Become Been Corny
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No matter how long, tough or rough a journey might be, when it comes to an end the distance becomes history.
No matter Journey Distance History
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Sometimes our works are validated through awards, which are like a pat on the back.

Sometimes Validated Awards Pat
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…If you don’t go through challenges you won’t know your strength.
Go through Challenges Strength
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I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

Also Am Because Go
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Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

Heroes Rough time Speak Stand up
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Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Faith Window Beauty Door
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The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

Students Reading Keeping Everyone
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Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Any Beauty Being Both
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Your journey might be different from mine but still, do not aspire to be like me but better than me. Times have been bad, rough and difficult but note this; nothing happens overnight so do not be in a hurry.

Journey Mine Better than Overnight
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We're a young, married couple, and we go through all the ups and downs that every couple goes through; we're no different.

Couple Different Downs Every
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Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

Affect Better Compassionate Conscious
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I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

About Conversation Difficult Going
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When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.

Gulf Help Just Make
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Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.

Any Apples Busy Day
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Base Believe Change Economic
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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations

Always Around Brought Happiness
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To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

Love righteousness Grow Life Earth
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I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

Brought Experience Find Go
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I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

Added Administration Any Average
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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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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Animal Animals Conceive Convince
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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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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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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 am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

Trying Struggle Through life God's bidding
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

The truth Love Beautiful Mountains
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Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

Fable Lord Jesus Friend Satisfied
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If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

We desire Faith Strengthened Shrink
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The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Appalling History Idea Oppressed
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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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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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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Anyone Bald Confident Diamond
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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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I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

Day Drafts Go Guilt
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Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

Am Best Coolest Dad
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Ahead Attention Both Career
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Hard times...but God always comes through.
Hard times God Always Come
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My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

Again Children Creative Creative Process
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You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.

Fight Film Hey Music
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