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What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

What Important Me Was
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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Structure Piano Flight Stair
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You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

Best Biggest Court Decided
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I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Always Back Been Book
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Discovering Fantasy Forever Ideas
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Appreciate Been Brain Easier
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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Here Past Pleasant Better
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Swearing Invented Fighting Compromise
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Accomplished Aim Fixed Gaze
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

About Dictionary Everything Poem
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When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Kid Store Toy Train
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

Box Child Eventually Had
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I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Car Clown Died Funeral
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I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Buying Clothes Escalator Girl
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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

People Power Store Trapped
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Any Disease Important Significance
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Dream Life Interpret Looking
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Achievements Acts Excluded Feats
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Bed Born Embarrassing Fact
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It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

Mattered People Wrong Right
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

Devil Foundation Work Apple
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

One Skills Learn Become
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Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Obama Michelle Tell Me
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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Audience Comedy Craziest Entertaining
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Around Because Bread Came
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It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

Easy Love God Beautiful
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Attained Contradictory Experience Find
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If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.

Alien Also Average Bigger
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I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Brought Came Child Close
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I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Audience Awesome Being Champion
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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

Comedy Like Me Stand-Up Comedy
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My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Goal Never Loudest Craziest
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Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

Before Birth Infinite Time
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Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.
Patience Without Skill Craftsman
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When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

Being Connection Elvis Ford
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The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Men Idolized Built Their
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I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

Big Bite Bleed Closed
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I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Dance Done Drink Family
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My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work. [Ephesians 2:10]
Designed God Knew Who
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The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

First Thing Learned School
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Answer Asked Attended Compliment
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Give Them They Want
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Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Love Meant Also Sign
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Almost Bed Before Gone
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

One Day Year Old
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

Before Father Hate Hated
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

Started Juggler Used Half
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Build Buildings Built Could
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Was Left Small Maine
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Fame Delicate Dangerous Creature
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