We are all part of the ecosystem.

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

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Religious Self

I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

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My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

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Independent Sibling

There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.

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Media Way

That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.

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Block Cities

I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!

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Garbage Lot Saw Way

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Years

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.

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Infidelity Smell

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.

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Jakhammer

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.

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Bigger

If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.

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Anything Feels

I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

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Expectations Unrealistic

If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

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Happy Picks Ukulele

In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.

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Trying

We are all part of the ecosystem.

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