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Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.
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Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.
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I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time.
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I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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I want to be where I'm wanted.
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The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage.
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Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
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The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?
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To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to rob others without interruption. To still others it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their animal appetites for comfort and pleasure.
