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Most Americans are very cool people.

Americans Cool People Most
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And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

Choose Life Worth Better
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I would rather gamble on our vision than make a ‘me, too’ product.

Gamble Vision Product Make
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To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.

Working Game Changer Confidence
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can’t switch gears. It’s a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they’re the same thing.

Weakness Strength Subtle Situation
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The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

Curiosity Important Feed Incite
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

Realization Capable Good Exactly
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One way to drive fear out of a relationship is to realize that your partner’s values are the same as yours, that what you care about is exactly what they care about. In my opinion, that drives fear out and makes for a great partnership, whether it’s a corporate partnership or a marriage.

Drive Relationship Vlaues Care
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

Classmates Flinch Gesture Afraid
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I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist.

Hungry Cultures Exist Suffer
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Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

Camel Discovered Election Eye
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I exist as I am, that is enough

Am Enough Exist
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Change Immediately Life Start
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Bad Best God Good
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game

American Baseball Game Great
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Dismiss Insults Soul Which
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes

ContainContradict Large Multitudes Myself
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Always Ambassador Authors Best
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

About Another Being Currents
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Afraid Am Back Better
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Least Mankind Object Say
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Been Before Cannot Did
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Hope Good
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

AlsoBattles Day Fall Gain
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Accept Time Me
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Dreams Each Fair Light
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Above Below Camp
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Honour Nature
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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I've never been more normal than I am now.

Normal Never More Been
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I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

Quite Loud Bolshie Big
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As an actor, I am good at creating different characters.
Actor Different Good Creating
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I don’t always place too much emphasis on religion because there were religions before the white men came to Africa.

Africa White Religion Always
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Lives Palestine Iran Interview
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Status Basically Wasting Financing
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Ecosystem Politicians Apathy Voting
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rather Play Horn Through
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

Africa Background Cultural Highlight
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I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Angry Anger Change History
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I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

Lied Face Camera Night
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Interest Type Worried Exactly
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

Amazing Extremely England Encountered
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I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

Dreams Place Still About
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Passport Travel Americans Lot
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Plumes Islamabad Fire Smoke
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Censorship Amendment Interested First
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This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Love String Significance Miracle
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I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

Electricty Ramones Relevant Music
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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