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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Time Political opponents Honored me Fabulous
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Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

Peace Promoted Limitation Creation
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Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

About Complain Month Myself
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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

Self government Succeed Instructed electorate
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Image Itself Passion Public
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Block Creates Itself Man
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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Control Production Wealth Human life
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I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

Being Certainly Environment Football
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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Any Director Filmmaker Had
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I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

Able Because Commitment Done
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You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

Because Cause Doubt Listen
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I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.

Always Blood Dirt Makeup
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And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

About Anxiety Back Enjoy
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To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

Back Convince Create Energy
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No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

Accuse Ever Himself James
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I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

America Defend I Think Itself
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I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
Childhood Had Happy Happy Childhood
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Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

Against Argument Contrary Course
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
Allow Belief Considerations Must
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I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.

Devil How Intense Know
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You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

Always Away Be Yourself Done
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That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw

Man Best Truth Good
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But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

Thinks Learns Others Failure
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Harming himself Another
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As a business owner, differentiate yourself, be consistent, and figure out what they want.

Business Owner Be consistent Differentiate
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If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Man insisted Being serious Relaxation Go mad
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

God Suffer presumption Anyone
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Civil strife Greater evil War itself Worse
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It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Impossible Someone Human
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Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Love Human beings Yourself
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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Through life Master Happy man
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Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Think Yourself Every day Last
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I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

Any Consider Good Judge
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Always seize the opportunity to develop yourself.

Opportunity Develop yourself
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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Time Feel lonely You Need
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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

Answer Become Cannot Care
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Make yourself so busy that you do not notice those who dislike you for their selfish reason, because life is too short to be wasted by giving attention to the nay sayers.

Make yourself Notice Dislike you Selfish reason
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Giving an insignificant thing your attention is a form of self-disrespect, always stay focused and keep to your lane.

Giving Insignificant Attention Self disrespect
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Learn to value yourself by fighting for your happiness.

Learn to Value Fighting Happiness
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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

Adventure Amusing Any Book
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

Acquisitions Age Apt Becomes
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Across Acting Actually Been
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It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

About Dangerous Get How
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

Acting After Educating English
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Around Because Care Directing
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I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

About Acting Any Because
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
Cast I Think Like Self
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

Art Art World Because Bring
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Escaping Home Longest Round
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Control Enable First Framing
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