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There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

Exactly Know Logos Matter
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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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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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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Act Amusement Generally Marriage
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Amount Been Classical Classical Music
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

Agenda Anyone Campaign Clear
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Artist Became Educating IPod
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

Coach Excellent Football Football Team
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

Believe Delivering Example Fashion
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I felt your response was ill -timed, knowing those leaders were mourning. I apologize if it came out wrongly, or rudely.

Response Leaders Apologize Wrong
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I am part of this country that will keep speaking the obvious ways life can be made better for us all.

Country Keep Speaking Life
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Children Future One Present
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If blaming others for not taking actions you can't take yourself makes you sleep well at night, enjoy.

Blaming Actions Sleep Night
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

History About Parts Story
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Story Part Work History
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Actively Activist Came Father
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Repair Year Take Done
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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Blame Else Human Politics
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Important Keys Healthy body Dynamic
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Problems World Solved Skeptics
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Ocean Sea Sail Watch
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Bears Depends Important Life
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American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Stirred Ocean Opinion Public
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If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

People Head Bow Confidence
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I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

Problems Seek Truth Historical
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For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.

Instance Name Unity Build
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I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Death Fear Honor Love
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Ready Reason Man Spend
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Men Fairness Only Power
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Rooms End House Like
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Old Poet Truth Daughter
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me
Woman Thing Afraid Hunt
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Friend Same Enemies You
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I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Man Exist Improve Own
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
I Hope Angel Mother
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Certain Dreams Hopes Like
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Everything Examining Expected Find
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Among Appear Foolish Fools
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Ambition Itself Often Parent
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Ambition Cause Itself Often
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Am Down English Friend
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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Because Believe Committed Could
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I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Amazing Find Internet Love
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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Am Back Battle Event
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

Always Buddy Cameras Career
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Character Dreams Judge Natural
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Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
Nothing Difficult Opinion Avoid
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I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Love People Why Things
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Loudly Praise Blame Softly
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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

Kindly Ordinarily Business Obliged
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