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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Been Certainly Dangerous Empire
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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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The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.

About Best Control Everything
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You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

Cause Know Person Really
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Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

Life About Think Feelings
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Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

Deliberate Feeling Slow Something
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I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

Audience Dictates Feel Get
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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

Analyze Extremely Happiness Important
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It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

Book Case Differently Read
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The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

Time Done Point Idea
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Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

About Important Life Nothing
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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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Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

Overly Feelings Best Serve
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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

Pattern Coherent Easier Little
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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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When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.

Criticized Get Going Hey
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

Distinguish People Happiness Word
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When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

About Bike Care Did
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I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.
Gotta Look Opposed Stuff
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Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.

Drain Either Fun Hate
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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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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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I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

Howl Know Life Mean
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The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.
About Best Control Everything
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When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.

Doing Hard Involved Man
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You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

Comedy Comedians Inspired Real
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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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If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Believe Due Hard Going
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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
About Important Life Nothing
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You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Else Everything EverythingElse Happy
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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

Time Spend Control Feeling
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It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

Trend Probably Spotted Think
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We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Works Mind Failures Experts
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It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Resilient Keeps Healthy Optimistic
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Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Attention Process Extent Seems
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If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
Face Fairy Future Magic
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Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Down Wings Grow Bridge
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People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

Famous About Bad Things
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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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If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

About Always Another Any
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If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.

Letting Go Hate Relax Easy
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Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.
Heart Ashamed Strength Wrong
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Everyone Glass Had Slaughterhouses
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Desperation Instinct Possibility Disguise
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
End Equal Love Make
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Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

About Certainly Come Dad
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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Account Army Beatles Bells
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If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

Lose heaven Gain everything
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Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

Sit down Satan Arise Elevated standard
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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Least Love Love Stories Stories
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