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Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Find out Person truth Soul
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Face Face Reality Reality Wish
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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Afraid Because Internet Type
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Course Developing Gardener Had
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Days Exist Function Live
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Maintain good hygiene and stay hydrated. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Wash your hands frequently even in isolation, sanitize regularly, clean surfaces frequently IN ISOLATION AND ESPECIALLY IF OTHERS ARE AROUND. Drink loads of water...NOT SOFT DRINKS AND BEER...water!

Maintain Good hygiene Stay hydrated
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As NCDC announces the 1st Covid19 death in Nigeria my heart and prayer goes out to the bereaved family this morning. Let us keep fighting to reduce the spread of the virus and save lives by social distancing,self isolation, wash your hands and stay home. We will win this war

Announces Death My heart Prayer goes
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

BeAMan Everyone God Help
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Always Childhood Financial Great
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I never thought I was gonna live to 30.

Gonna Live Never Thought
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Any Better BetterWriter Could
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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

Calling Fact InFact Painter
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

English Got Interested Learning
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Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.

Arrived Australia Before China
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

Think Old Love Admire
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Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Because Talent Vain Happen
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Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again

Second Moment Unique Each
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When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'

About Best Global Good
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Between Born Forests Grew
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Being Course Girl Like
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Asleep Duty Felt People
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

Child Ever Since Something
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

About Around Books Children
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

Beautiful China Cup Drink
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The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

Active Because Biggest Concern
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

Away Books Childhood Interested
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My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

Around Father Hated He
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Basic Because Came Chords
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

About Alone Early Nights
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I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

Able Art Before Beginning
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

Ability Away Great Just
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

Actor Bald Early Else
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Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

Began Early Few Funny
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My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

About Available Base Because
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I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
Down Had Humanity Reaction
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In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.
Always Branch Comedian Going
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Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

Back Before Comedians Doing
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

Award Earned Every High
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Back Class Half Last
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I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Am Aware Body Did
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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

About Actor Adult Confirmed
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Acting Actor Any Beyond
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Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

Acting Always Any Doing
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Before you came, the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Before Born Came Prose
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Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

Answer Believe Correct Historically
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At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

About Area Complete Defense
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I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Back Clock Conservative He
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Businessman Businessmen Came Doctor
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Academia Father Good His
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I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

Along Biggest Came Depression
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