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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Anybody Gave Hell Just
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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Another Arsenal Atom Atom Bomb
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I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

High High School I Love Lot
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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

College Either Government History
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I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

Association Bar Council Even
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I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Came Ever First Got
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

After Failure Father He
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

America Built Courage Determination
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Mystery Government Works
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I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady.

Tribalist Intimate Igbo Lady
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizen.

Citizen Family Father Mother
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Thought Inspiration Work Hair
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Mother Idea Feeling
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
Born Depression Mount
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

Home Profession Hairdressing Change
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You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Dog Friend Get Want
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Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Class Great Great Time Had
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For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'

About Before Church Come
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Another Before Believe Civilization
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But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

Boldly Direction Dreams Figured
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I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

Being Comedy Fan Going
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

About Actually Age Air
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When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

Always Because California Kid
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And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Any Course Had Jobs
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I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
Funny I Think Kid Me
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

Absolutely Air Bar Became
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Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

Everything Great Hip Hip Hop
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Busier Busy He Man
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I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

Absolutely Believe Come Community
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I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.

Always Blood Designer Fashion
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I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

After Commercials Did First
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Paradise Made Tender Heart
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After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States - the greatest privilege on planet Earth.

After Arrived Become Both
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You follow the law. Every few months, you need to fly back to Europe and stamp your visa. After a few visas, I applied for a green card and got it in 2001. After the green card, I applied for citizenship. And it was a long process.

After Applied Back Card
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Of course, I always loved fashion - and I was always the tallest one and the skinniest one, so that helped.

Always Course Fashion Helped
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Early in my modeling career, when I was a teenager, I really took care of my skin. I didn't get too much sun exposure, and I moisturized.
Care Career Early Exposure
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I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

Hospital Life My Life Night
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I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

Because Big BigFan Doing
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I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

Chance Countrymen Depressed Distraction
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I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Always Anybody Anywhere Difficult
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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Because Else Father Japanese
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Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Be Happy Because Cats Confidence
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Able Could Directly Emotions
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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Because Books Complicated Dark
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I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

Environment Ever I Was Raised Known
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

First Football Job Mary
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I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Associated Because Both Both Sides
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It was really a blessing. It helped even out the conditions across the course.

Really Helped Condition Across
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It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

Anonymous Auditions Bad Blessing
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