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I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Bang Big Big Bang Cause
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I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

African African American American Animosity
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I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Able Been Carry Commitments
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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.

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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Both Challenge Cold Cold War
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I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Asked Between Bring Campaign
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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Bit Cover Fact Few
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The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Answer Around Been Communities
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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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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Ability Did Hollywood Interest
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Best Category Earned Emmy
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Ancient Been Day Grade
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Asking Book Choose Entirely
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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 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.

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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Arts Been Every Go
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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.

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Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated .

Making Film Sieve Element
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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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There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Kids Inspired me Adult Interested
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The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

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I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
Anthropology Society works People put
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Acted Behold Dreamt Joy
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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

Better purpose Devoted Talents Resuscitation
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God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

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I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty

Virtues Nobles qualities I love Exclusive
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Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

After Before Better Day
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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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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

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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.

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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

About Anyone Emotional Even
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

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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.

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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

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Any model adopted must drive towards intended outcomes.

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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.

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Ghana is the more talented team. We’ve got young, talented players who are coming up.

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The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Always Been Elected First
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The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

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I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

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These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Acceptance Come Conquer Emotions
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There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Intolerable things Life Cold coffee Lukewarm champagne
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My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.

Along Always Arts Bad
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I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

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