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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

Have Called America De Maupassant
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Gotta Put Rain Rainbow
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When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Inspired Come Next See
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My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

Children Expect Like Old
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If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.

Big Drag Dressing Flair
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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Day Dream Every Follow
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My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

Allowed Choir Church College
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Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

About Across Care Come
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How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

About How Kept Knowledge
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Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

About Because Care Day
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All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

About Dresser Earned Family
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I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

Being Myself Never Plan
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You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.
Argument Be Happy Couple Every
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The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.

Afterwards Day Did Doing
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You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Business Front Got Guy
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I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.

Comedian Father Great Great Pride
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My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

Care Even Family Father
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You've got to be vulnerable when you're talking to kids. There's nothing worse than some adult standing up there just talking down to some kid. You can't work that way.

Adult Down Got Just
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I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.
Am Being Black Feminism
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All the other rappers around me aren't saying anything worthwhile. They're lost in rap: all they do is tell you they're a sick MC and they're better than you. I don't want to look like all these other little punk, dress-up, fake, manufactured artists. I'm not a rapper. I'm an activist.

Activist Anything Around Artists
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I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but its definitely in the right direction for freedom and truth.
Definitely Direction Doing End
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I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can.

Again Album Allow Almost
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I haven't just come up with a hit - I'm not like a one-hit-wonder - I've been here for ages. No one is questioning my ability, so just enjoy the wave, spread the wave.

Ability Ages Been Come
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I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.

Acting Acting School Anything Been
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I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

Always Award Ceremonies Control
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Calls Devil Engaged Ever
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Becomes Equal His Made
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Actually Better Blowing Change
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Animal Birds Breeds Commonly
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

As Far As Caught Else Everyone
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We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.

We Came Into Broken
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Pretty Calculating Take Stuff
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Built Civilization Extent Impossible
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Been Call Degree Happiness
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Attainable Becoming Cannot Come
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If you can't do it, give up!

Give Up You Attitude
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

Act Believe Blowing Bomber
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Accounts Afraid Allowed Asked
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Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Children Educating Family Historically
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The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

Always Based Common Enduring
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How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Christ Dies Even Ever
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I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.

Adult Because Biggest Carry
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

Interested Mix Other Stay
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Always Desk Discipline Get
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.

Am Books Business Suppressing
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eautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year…the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Nature Wonder
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We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

America Breaking Capable Children
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

Been Bone Broken Could
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

Actually Departments Drama Enough
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