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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Because Buy Drink Hard
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Arse Everyone Except Man
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When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
Cat Covering Kept Me
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Misconception A Stupidity Talent
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My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
Again Boyfriend Broke Her
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Dreary Midnight Once Weak
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Dream Existence Fancy Future
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Beauty Development Excites Invariably
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

General Most Nature Particular
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I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Asleep Blind Blind Man Day
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Down Going Grand Like
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any Attain Commonly Easier
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

About Beyond Dialogue Drama
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Business Business Model Consequence Happy
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
Decisions Made Show Those
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change Change The World Ever Forget
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Being Combination Dumb Life
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Avoiding Being Combination Coming
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
About Finally Growing Growing Up
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Bears Close Come First
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I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Afraid Age Certain Certain Age
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Could Economy Few Government
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Accepted Actor Along Couple
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Artists Bit Cases Country
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Authority Being Best Carried
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

Goal Going Hard Life
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I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

Just Felt That Went
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Going Just Need Obscurity
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

All Our Lives Black Go God
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I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.

Any Circumstances Foreseeable Friends
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Always Believing Books Boy
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Adversity Hard Hundred Man
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Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

Apply Boston Even Father
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I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Along Electrician Got Line
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It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.

Accept Any Been Career
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I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

All My Life Always Angry Child
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The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

American American People Better Better Way
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Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.

Because Been Emphasis Experience
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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

Battle Been Bros Butt
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I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

About Care Doing Earned
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I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

Attention Brought Feel Growing
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

About Actions Am Anybody
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

Defying Doctors Doing Eat
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She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Able Become Career Did
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Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Bringing Equality Generation Men
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I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.

Air Air Force Almost Almost Every Day
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If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Buy Citizens Decision Democracy
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The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

African African American American Class
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