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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

About Always Any AnyOtherPlace
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

Church Entertainment Expression Growing
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

Abroad Barack Barack Obama Common
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If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.
Cruel Got Right Saying
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

Art Artistic Balance Both
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
Feel Hate I Feel I Feel Like
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

Degree Expectations Life Like
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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

About Artists Beginning Better
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

Culture Kind Know Pop
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

Album Amplified Breathe Came
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

About Anything Blog Encouraging
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Courage Embody Feel Fight
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

Crap Cut Got Movie
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
Expectations Industry Manage Me
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

Albums Ali Back Beats
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I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

Agnostic Appealed Back Breathed
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

Anyone Beat Before Cool
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Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Different Falling Having Love
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I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Believe Connection First Love
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I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Existence Noble Sorry Sublime
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Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
Changes Ends Grief Never
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When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

Alone Gone Love People
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I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

Roles Genres Able Films
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It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Kind Outside Guess Guy
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I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

Course Handsome Sexy Hopeless
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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Shame Divide Celebrate Film
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It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

Dangerous Fun Hopelessly Love
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I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Dumb Happen People Got
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I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Life Between Kind Living
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Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Beard Believe Long God
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

Artists Choice Feels Film
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I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

Able Choice Film Gone
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How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

Wonder Aging Terror Confront
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Different Intention Kind Letters
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When you realize you're alive, you can live life!

Realize Alive Live Life
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I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

Healthy Happy Mad Philosophy
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Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

Imagine Walking Trip Care
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I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

Idolize Father Mean Worked
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I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.

Life Career Point Role
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I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

Hated School Friend Fit
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I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

Wish People Young Respect
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Having a family just changes your perspective on everything. For me, it was the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.

Having Family Change Perspective
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My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Bed Best Between Formula
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We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Cans Color Factory Make
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I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

Became Finally He Me
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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Cary Grant Even Everyone Grant
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To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Disprove Her Opposite Opposite Sex
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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Family Insanity Practically Runs
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Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
Divorce Game Lawyers Played
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I think that making love is the best form of exercise.
Best Exercise Form I Think
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