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When I look at the faces of children, I see endless possibilities. All they need is a little help, a little hope, a little love, and someone who believes in them. God bless the child.

Look Face Children Endless possibilities
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You win some & lose some but what matters is the learning process.

You win Lose some Learning process
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I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Always Am Approach Best
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Sometimes the motivator needs motivation. Sometimes the encourager needs encouragement. Sometimes the inspirer needs inspiration.

Motivator Motivation Encouragement Inspiration
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My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

Age Around Day DayAndAge
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Always Away Child Childish
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Need Schools Sometimes Things
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

About Ever Gesture Good
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

Want Nobody Only way Somebody
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Asking Country Even Found
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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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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Before Evidence Existed Front
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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 loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Loved photography Crazy thing Day nobody
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Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

Changes Unusual Movies Release them
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There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Movies People Diversion World
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Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

Whenever You do Something People
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Taking something Man Worse Plagiarism
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

Trials Obstacles Difficulties Food
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Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

Assured Christianity More than Creeds
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Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

Heavenly father Takes Children Means
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The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

World Understand me Greatly matter
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I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

After Bad Better Break
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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Get How Humanity Lose
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Sometimes, it is necessary to have a taste of what it feels like to be an ordinary woman on the street.

Sometimes Necessary Taste Ordinary woman
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When someone is not free to do what they feel like doing, like every other person on the street, it causes depression which can even lead to death.

Someone Free Feel Depression
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Living a fake life can lead to indebtedness as some celebrities always want to meet up to a certain standard.
Living Fake life Indebtedness Celebrities
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If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Absolutely Any Any Circumstances Circumstances
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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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Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Actually Breasts Having Large
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I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.

Blond Body Boyfriend Disappeared
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Some of us are having a wild time, we are constantly changing while remaining the same…we are a little insane, and love is the reason for the malady.

Wild time Changing Insane Love
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With the kinds of progress we’re seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

Progress Africa Kinds Gets better
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There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Better Different DifferentKinds Fit
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Emerged Eventually Kept Me
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Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Act Advantage Always Audience
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Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die someday. So if you like, remember me.

Someone ask Legacy Answers
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My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough you will find some faults in me, so keep an open mind.

Children Perfect father Old enough Open mind
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

About Complaining Complaints Instead
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

Bleak Days Doing Some
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

Around Good Homeless Living
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Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

Able Bad Birds Deaf
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

Affectionate Around Day Every
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Committed Couple Doing First
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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

Find Grew Joy Me
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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Angel Being Something Touched
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Clouds Ecstasy Feel Me
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Afraid Become Forget Something
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