We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my PERSONALITY or the CIRCUMSTANCE, but it all KIND of LED to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.

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ANYTHING that NEEDS to be accessed is within me. EVEN if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just GO back to the basic human EXPERIENCE and it's all there.

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My first 'Tonight SHOW' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be COMING together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the AUDIENCE going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's LIKE an ATHLETE: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

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I can go into any working CIRCUMSTANCE and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the WORK. It was a LONG, HARD LESSON I learned.

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Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of HIGH school horrors. I think I was just an AWKWARD kid who never felt COMFORTABLE in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by CIRCUMSTANCE and then by CHOICE.

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Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those THINGS come together - circumstance, the FOOD, ambiance, and you're with the person that you WANT to be with.

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You can see how prison COULD affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a YEAR. Because eventually, it starts to EAT away at you. And if you don't work at yourself MENTALLY or PHYSICALLY or spiritually, eventually you're going to be swallowed up by circumstance.

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Because the Savior is a resurrected and glorified being, He is not PHYSICALLY with EVERY one of His servants at every moment. But He is PERFECTLY aware of them and their circumstance and ABLE to INTERVENE with His power.

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Our experience of MANY life CIRCUMSTANCES is a function of our PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE and not the circumstance itself.

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You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they CHOSE to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an EXPERIENCE and LEARNING. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.

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People ALWAYS WANT to think that because you're not from a certain CIRCUMSTANCE, you can't relate. That's RIDICULOUS.

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I write 100% of my MATERIAL by myself. That's really IMPORTANT to me because I don't want what I'm TRYING to say to be diluted by anyone that MIGHT not know my circumstance or who I am as a person.

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In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, BASICALLY, all the trees had gone, that PEOPLE all around the park are struggling to survive. It BECAME very clear that there was no WAY to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate CIRCUMSTANCE. We don't see a big PICTURE for our LIVES. We don't LOVE ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future.

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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate CIRCUMSTANCE. We don't see a big picture for our LIVES. We don't LOVE ourselves. We don't have a WAY of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.

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