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My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.

Been Care Family Father
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It was a huge thrill to win the Confederations Cup.

Cup Huge Thrill Win
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Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

Above Citizenship Common Criminals
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
Finished First Old Six
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Did Even Foolproof He
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Age Cannot Feels Forget
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Amusing Backgrounds Been Both
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Adored Became Because Been
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

About Anything Away Because
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

Felt Had Head Lone
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If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason

Done Always Been Reason
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Did Fifty He His
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Convince Enough Figured Greatest
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Am Before Even Greatest
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Fight First Toughest Wife
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I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

About Brother Champ Down
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I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Bed Before Dark Fast
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Best Come Did Ever
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Better History Human Ignorance
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My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Also Background Education Family
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Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Barely Controlled Diseases How
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Complexity Inefficient Mental energy
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When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

Else Episodes Going Good
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I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

Big BigFan Buster Fan
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Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

Big BigBudget Blue Budget
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Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.

Ever Fan FanMail Jim
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I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

Able Any Collect Creatively
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I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.

Always Beat Content Eye
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I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

Being Gone Had IRemember
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I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

Awards Definitely Done Door
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Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again.

Again Back BackToSchool Day
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I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.

Awards Big BigFan Blend
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Anger is a wasted emotion.
Anger Wasted Emotion
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For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and find the future.

Life Past Future
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People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

About Always Been Experimenting
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

Along Back Pieces Matter
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The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.

Deep String Touched Moment
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Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Light Beneath Time Shape
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It’s easy to see successful people and think they were born that way. The reality is that, every successful person was ambitious and relentless. Persistence is the vehicle you should be most interested in.

Easy People Born Way
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

Dangers Happy Inconvenience Midst
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It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.
Any English Kind Listen
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The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

Because Easiest Fever Memoir
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Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'

Apart Because Day Football
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I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Accents America Brother Bullying
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My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

Become Beginning Build Business
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I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

Able Because Every Feel
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I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

About American AmericanIdol Expect
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I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously.
Couple Days Go ICan
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Delight Fund Here Nature
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

Born Cynic Deny I Was Born
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