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I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and - like all teenagers

I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry. – Stephen Colbert

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No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close. – Stephen Colbert

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I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? – Stephen Colbert

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I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. – Stephen Colbert

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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits Ive managed to grow out of. – Tom Holt

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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. – Margaret Walker

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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. – Paul Muldoon

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. – Norman O. Brown

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous. – Francis Bacon

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Comrade Deng Xiaoping – along with other party elders – gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures. – Li Peng

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O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride. – G. K. Chesterton

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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it. – Jean Anouilh

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