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I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.

Always Become Dance Devil
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Alike Before Bravest Clearest
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
Courage Endure Enemies Face
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The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

Again Baby Best Comedy
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We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Assumes Economic Future Idea
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The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Decision Effort Getting Importance
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So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Paying Attention About Thinking
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The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.

Away Coming Every Familiarity
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I miss working with great actors, working with great directors

Actor Directors Great Miss
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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

List Improve Making House
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I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.

About Act Arm Around
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When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.

Act Back Beyond Comedian
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Physically, my character is stronger than him which is totally unrealistic, ... Because in reality he can ... kill me. I think it has a lot to do with (him being) the youngest of all of his brothers, and I think he got beat up a lot.

Physically Unrealistic Character Beat
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The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Always Bodies Body Center
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Art Enemy Making Point
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My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

Night Write Day Precious
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

After Age Any Better
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Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Absolute Always Anything Bodies
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Also Always Cannot Everywhere
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If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Air Deprived Earth Force
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In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

Accurate Accurately Any Contrary
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Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Absolutely Another Any Certain
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Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.

Dream Creatures Can Do Naught
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The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

Being Deity First Gravity
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Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

Parent Perfect control Spirit Mildness
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Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.

Religion Consist Noise Soul
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I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

Being Gotten Know Number
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Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.
Deal faithfully Truly Soul
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God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

God's people Spirit Influence Mind
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I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

Everywhere Goes Indeed Laptop
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Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.

Confound Faith Exorcise Believe
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Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

Beatle Either End He
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Come Go Me More
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Lyricists play with words.
Play Words Lyricist
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

After Anyway Death Enough
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I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

Beatles Deal Hate Press
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Color Important Melancholy Nothing
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Allowed Always Artist Coincide
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

How Instrument Practiced Singer
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Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Certainly Dealing Difficult Difficult Thing
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I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

Done Ever Having Only
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There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

Comfortable Earn Get Guys
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I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

Because Comedian Concern Consider
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I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

Actor Approval Had Need
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Once we begin to see women as humans with as much right to occupy spaces as men. We would have removed the foundation upon which gender-based violence thrives.

Begin See women Humans Occupy spaces
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Freedom is exercising your rights getting an education without the fear of sexual harassment.

Freedom Your right Education Sexual harassment
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I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.'

Afraid Because Game Games
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There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with.

Little Lot More Overwhelmed
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Anybody that's going on a road trip and doesn't really want to get into a myriad of snacks is probably no one you want to get in the car with.

Anybody Car Get Going
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I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look.

Adam Ant Go Look
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