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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Anything Better God He
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I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

Any As Far As Baptist Believer
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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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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Ambition Creative Life Necessary
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The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Before Closest Come Could
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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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I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

Attention Focus Honestly I Can
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It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

Being Better Father Go
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If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Better Flaws Happy Learn
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Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

Ambition Anything Anything Else Doing
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

Decade Every Gazing Get
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

Always Because Day Distraction
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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

Ideas Laugh Made Myself
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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Have yet Man Direction Think
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There is no legitimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

Legitimate actor Powerful Movies
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The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
Bachelors Freedom Freer Greater slave
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People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

People Believe Hard Seen
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Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Work Business Universe Eyes
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Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

God Bound Punish sin Destroy
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Humor comes from self-confidence.

Humor Self-Confidence
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Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

Annihilation Death Good Dead
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Find I Can Lead Me
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Conformity Everyone Likes Reward
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Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Ask Children First Guy
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Been Burn Destroy Else
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I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

Repent Ignorance God Man
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It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

Man Obedient Master Word
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I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
Rose Death Sadness Life
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I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.

About Always Come Differently
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When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

Crap Doubt Good Level
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Over the years, I’ve realized that the people you surround yourself with go a long way in affecting your achievements.

Realized People Surround Affecting
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To educate a mind is to guarantee a more prosperous future, to educate a generation is to lift a nation out of poverty. To educate oneself is the beginning of the journey.

Educate Mind Guarantee Future
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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Because Bring Disagree Equality
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Self-belief and hard work always equals success.
Self belief Hard work Success
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Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Ages Balanced Been Bill
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Consider Did Middle Myself
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When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

Things Bad Best time Reinvent
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Love comedy Exercise Writing Years
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Burden Laugh Myself Self
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The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.

Lord Jesus Worse Grace Christ
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Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
Work Lord Temptation Keep us
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I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

Desire Many things Heart filled Love
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness

Guard well Treasure Kindness Hesitation
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One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

Happy Necessary Ingredients Simple tastes
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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Nothing resembles Selfishness Self respect
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Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Know Replace Heart Happiness
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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Being Complexities Human Means
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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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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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It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Difficult Learn Over Regulate
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