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I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

About ILove IThink Jokes
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It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Associate Deeper Human Human Nature
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Although my songs reflect many issues which are relevant in my society. I believe that human relations are the site where all issue emerge.

My song Relevant Society Human relations
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I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

Easily Me Person Pleased
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I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don’t think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn’t fear the knife because it is dead already. I have a dead goat syndrome

Strikes Demonstrations Get worse Goat
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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.

Africa Rapid Progress Continent
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I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa if you see the poverty around us, you can’t afford to be anything else

Politician Socialist Poverty Africa
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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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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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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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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
Also Certain Funny Jews
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

Humiliating Involve Man Most
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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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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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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Back Crazy Drives Even
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Army Because Bush End
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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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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
After Just Laughs Really
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I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.

Trust people Bit firm Fault Father
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Become Comedy Doing Had
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I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

At Least One Continue Empty Ensure
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Allen Bring Death Entire
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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.

Comedy Coming Hear Kind
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I always tell my staff, the day you think of going to work and your heart jumps, resign from that job.

My staff Work Heart jumps
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

Glad Improvised Most Scene
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You can start a business and not have the aptitude for that business.

Start Business Aptitude Business
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The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

Anymore Change I Can Only
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The best thing you can ever do is to make sure that the bets you take are long term bets.

Best thing Make sure Bets Long term
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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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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

Began Country Dawn Home
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

After Been Better Day
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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 guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

Am Comedian Could Feel
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…The main crux is that we need government and government needs us. And what government supports assiduously, can only be success.

Need government Supports Success
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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

About Audience Energy Feed
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

Gets Headline Man Married
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Carry Everywhere First Me
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I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

Albeit Decent Done Inadvertently
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… Many African leaders have realized that they can no longer be the “adversaries’ of the private sector. They must work with entrepreneurs.

Leaders Realized Adversaries Private sector
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

First Fish Learned Night
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I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

About According Color Day
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I believe that just like a man can serve his God without being a clergy, so can a man serve his state without being the governor.

I believe Serve God State
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

Being Cross Dealing Get
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

Anything Reading Said Stand
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I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

Am Any Anyone Been
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The best strategy is one that achieves the intended outcome.

Best strategy Achieves Outcome
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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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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Because Cheerful Curious Double
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Afraid Become Forget Something
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