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1217 Philanthropist Quotes

I've been blessed to live my dream more than half my life, so I want help give that back to someone else.
Back Been Blessed Dream
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The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

Best BestPart Business Collaborating
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I really rebel against authority.

Against Authority Really Rebel
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I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.

Artists Bought Cared DVD
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People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'

Anybody Butterflies Like Obsessed
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I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

About Always Am Because
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I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

Actually Always Because Certain
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But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Best Friend Good GoodPerson
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Some of us talk about other people and what they do and la la la. But I'm not that person.

About La Other People
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I love the grimiest rappers in the world. That's my favorite.

Favorite ILove Love Rappers
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A lot of rappers don't have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.

Always Bubble Go Had
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I don't think there were great beauty trends in the '90s - I was just doing my own thing.
Beauty Doing Great Just
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I really don't do karaoke because it becomes a vocal performance rather than fun, like, 'Let's just sing this song and be silly.' It's not fun for me.

Because Becomes Fun Just
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I'm not Gloria Steinem, but I mean, I'm definitely all for powerful women.

Definitely Mean Powerful Women
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I wrote my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's Theme.' It's on the 'Rainbow' album from '99. Back in the day.

Album Anthem Back Day
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I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.

Arrange Flowers Spare SpareTime
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I'm a very good laundress when I have to be.

Good Very
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

Convinced Ever Novels Only
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Ability Choices Far More
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Equals He His How
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Case Default Failed Failing
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
Damage Dislike Indifference More
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Bravery Deal Enemies Friends
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
Each Ending Liking Other
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
Finished First Old Six
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Absurd Little Make More
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

After Again Carry Harry
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Anything Enough Got Nerve
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Death is just life's next big adventure.

Adventure Big Death Just
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Fear Increases Itself Name
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Else Even Good Good Sign
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Did Even Foolproof He
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Choosing Humans Knack Precisely
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Afraid Cabin Holding Long
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Does Dreams Dwell Forget
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Against Ashamed Bothering Hold
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Anything Brain Itself Keeps
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Best Eat Must Our
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Beautiful Caution Great Must
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Come Coming Does Just
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Age Cannot Feels Forget
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I really don't believe in magic.
Believe Magic Really Don't
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Amusing Backgrounds Been Both
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The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Enough Lies Moment Old
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Against Anyone Fates Intelligence
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Climbing Depression Efforts Entails
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Away Failure Means Stripping
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Adored Became Because Been
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Detest Most Thing Bigotry
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