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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Asked Bookstore Defeat Me
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

Across Cultural Descent Distant
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Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.

Center Even High High School
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty

People Sympathetic Capacity Stronger
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Day English Every Every Day
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Means Class Know Letting
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I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Always Coolest Dad Did
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At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Implicitly Poetry Politics Twenty
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Characters Hemingway Learned Listen
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

Car Car Keys Drove Everyone
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

Am I Am Lot Many
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Been Business Foolish Grandeur
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Robot Century Place Slave
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Don’t use Lazarus to justify begging. Lazarus went to heaven because he was righteous, not because he was a beggar. The righteous DON'T BEG.

Lazarus Begging Righteous Beggar
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I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

Actual Asked Clothing Lady
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I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

First Found Interesting Law
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Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Area Boston Harvard Never
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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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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Care Don't Care Eighty Glad
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

About Everybody Nineties Obligations
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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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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Century Fascism History Known
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Always Decades Interest Me
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Always Architectural Art Arts
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

Call City Come Cop
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I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.

Because Dyslexia Dyslexic Going
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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

Beach Going Jamaica Now
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Bad Ballplayer Bit Even
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
Problem Century Color
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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

About Cure Damn Friends
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I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

Went To The Public
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

Afternoon Back Big Came
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

I Tried Job Jobs Long
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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I went through a lot of battles in high school.
Battles High HighSchool Lot
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Repair Year Take Done
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I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Acid Bulb Doctor Felt
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We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!

Because Been David Did
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I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

Allowed Anywhere Arabia Because
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The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

Always Away Been College
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Big deal. Death always went with the territory

Death Big-deal Went Territory
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“Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.”
Who Went Hungry Stoodby
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Everyone Talent Twenty-five Difficulty
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They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

Away Belittle Did End
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You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

Had Hollywood Know Left
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I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

College Dad Had How
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Again Cannot Come Content
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