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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Empathy Really The Opposite
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Don't Understand How Good
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Count All The Way
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Used Think Religion Just
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It's Funny Thing People
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Able Acting Actor Director
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Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

Between Church Credibility Faithful
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The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
Group Most Our People
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Always Architectural Art Arts
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'

All Day Back Because Business
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We need to recognize that racism has never been subtle, though it has gone underreported.

Need Recognize Racism
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I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

Dictatorship People Ability Express
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Myself Poetry Some Understand
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Because Came Come Deeply
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Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.
Me Nobody Really Sensitive
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Across Feeling Gets Gift
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Throughout My Career Fed
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I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

Feel Handle Hard Hard Time
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Actually Connection Good Got
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

Big Crawl Cross Four
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The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

About Because Conspires Else
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Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Now That Understand Addict
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Thank you for sneaking your transistor under the pillow as you grew up loving the Tigers. God has a new adventure for me.

Adventure God Grew Loving
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Behind Blunder Cheer Dangers
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Book Clumsy Cruel Devil
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Humanity Stars Future Lost
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For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Prohibition Create Underground
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“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Practice Judge Favorable Light
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
Patterns Perceive Understand Wisdom
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I think people have to understand that 'empowering' for women doesn't mean negating men.

Empowering I Think Mean Men
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Ability Absolutely Almost Both
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Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

Championship Championships Down Goal
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
About Editor Good Meddle
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I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.

Gone Down Several Paths
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An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Against Side Artist Emperor
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

Beauty Fashion Fashion Industry Industry
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You cant find opportunity in yesterday. Opportunity begins with o, and o exists only in today and tomorrow. Don’t regret the failures of your past. Prepare for the successes in your future. Change your understanding of NO to mean Next Opportunity

Opportunity Yesterday Tomorrow Failures
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Believe Men Universal Acknowledged
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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Slave Consent Freedom Deserve
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I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.

Never Understand People Sleep.life
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Difficulty Excuse Our Pretext
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Another Key Lessons Life
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Only the intelligent ones will understand. The fool will argue

Intelligent Understand Fool Argue
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I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.

Before Buy Came Cosmetics
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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Anguish Beauty Cutting Edges
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Right Moment Better Cleverness
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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Belong Category Causes Classes
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

About Always Amazed Attraction
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I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

Creepy Kind Knowing Like
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