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I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

Against Brain Cancer Did
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So, the easiest way to waste the future is to churn out millions of semi-illiterates, largely unemployable citizens most of whom seek criminality as the only way to escape the poverty trap.

Easiest way Future Churn Millions
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I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
About Had House I Wish
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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Both Challenge Cold Cold War
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I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Bed Days Final Had
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Asked Between Bring Campaign
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Around Began College Entire
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Always Away Child Childish
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Always Away Book Dream
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Asking Book Choose Entirely
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Chemist Could Ends Exciting
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

About Appointed Because Been
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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
After Amazing Another Happened
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I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

Want Nobody Only way Somebody
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I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

Difficult childhood Surrounded Parent
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Love comedy Exercise Writing Years
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

High school Interested History People do
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Loved photography Crazy thing Day nobody
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There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Kids Inspired me Adult Interested
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Acted Behold Dreamt Joy
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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

Never interested Powerful Famous Film school
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A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

Servant God Master Rich
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Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile
Butterflies Flowers Sunny day Nature
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Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

Doubts Reality Situation Wondered
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When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Always Eventually First FirstName
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I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

Ballet Because Class Got
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Whatever is holding you back was put there to teach you patience and to help you learn to earn your keep.

Whatever Holding Patience Earn
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Whenever I'm faced with an issue, I deal with it squarely, even if I was going to fail, I try to learn from my mistakes. So if we appreciate our past, then we can understand where we are at presently.

Whenever Faced Issue Fail
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Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

Before slavery Medicine Malaria
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Looking deeper into African way of life, it wasn't religious; it was spiritual. When you go into spiritualism, spiritualism will teach you about virtues, how to be patient, humble and kind.

Looking deeper Life Spiritual Spiritualism
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Emerged Eventually Kept Me
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Character Doing First Gonna
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
After Just Laughs Really
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Future Good Had Homeless
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Allen Bring Death Entire
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
About Age Every Feared
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

Comedy Coming Hear Kind
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

Glad Improvised Most Scene
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Being Glamorous Had Look
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

Around Good Homeless Living
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Being Capable Larger Laureate
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Heard Many Poem Thought
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Committed Couple Doing First
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Being Comedian Great Interested
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

Being Cross Dealing Get
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Ability Alive Come Extremely
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I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.

Anonymous Was As Quite
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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

About Could Course Going
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I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Always Beautiful Dad Family
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My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.

Along Always Arts Bad
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