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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

Best Business Decision Ever
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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Crowded Ladder Never Success
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The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Away Cut Forth God
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Corner Gate May New
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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Cattle Drive Follow Get
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Follow Fought Gains Leads
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading

Kind Other People Reading
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Know Paragraph Piece Read
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Battle Except Get His
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Deadline A Dream Goal
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Farewell He Road Says
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Advance Backwards Civilization Flow
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Am Chained England English
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Drawn Enough Eye Hold
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment

About Charming Friends Had
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

Always Craft Equipped Felt
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

About Attractive Begin Being
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Anyone Colonial Complex Knows
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

Dead Generate He Hostility
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Adversity Being Challenging Courage
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Nigerians are naturally aggressive towards their business, but tend to be docile towards their government. However, hunger is gradually eroding their docility.

Nigerian Business Aggressive Docile
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

Always Come Had Home
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Been Business Foolish Grandeur
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

Accuse Agony Created Did
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
Illiterate Lot Quite Read
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

Admit Doing Even Hardly
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

Again Book Frozen Moment
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Action Before Dive Down
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God said His grace is sufficient and our strength is made perfect in weakness. Receive the grace of God and allow the power of Jesus Christ to rest upon you.

Rest Christ Power Jesus
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Lead a quiet life, mind your business and develop a strong work ethic. A frienzied lifestyle will not enhance your prospects of fulfilling your dreams.

Dream Lead Mind Life
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Leadership capacity will manifest in your ability to CREATE, MANAGE and GROW wealth.

Wealth Capacity Ability Manifest
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Adversity pursues sinners, but the righteous will be rewarded with prosperity.

Prosperity Rewarded Sinners Adversity
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In spite of the disappointment by close ones, your future and purpose will come to pass. The coming decade will be a season of shining and manifestation of your glory.

Glory Shining Decade Spite
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Instead of being an insignificant grain of sand, you must become a conspicuous mountain of fulfilment. Make fulfilling purpose your driving force against the odds that may come against you.

Come Driving Instead Against
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All men are driven either by design or default. Instead of strolling along with the “default circumstances” you find yourself in, strive to align your life with the instruction manual of the designer of life; God Almighty.

God Life Design Strive
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

Nas
According Changed Had How
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

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Achievement Amazing Ask Enough
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

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Divorce Divorces Easy Get
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

Nas
Channel Channels Discovery Good
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

Nas
Anything Biggest Could Promised
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

Nas
Able Being Blessed Career
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

Nas
America Basically Dead Hip Hop
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

Am Being Beings Conceive
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Heroic Interruptions Judicious Just
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

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Admire Ahead Entire Favorites
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Any Communism Largely Like
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Criticism Made Plausible Prejudice
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