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A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Attitude Bless Talent Heart
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My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.

Accessible Experience Traveling Abroad
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Need Lost Wheelchair Technically
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The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

Demon Disability Personal Sabotage
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If it weren't for the fact that all of us are slightly abnormal there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Fact Separate Point Abnormal
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At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

Topic Human Hope Concrete
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Better Trust Dark Sunshine
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Over Career Unlike Life
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.

Myself Sweeter Play Dumber
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Wisdom Become Depend Believe
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

Instilled Parents Sense Condition
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

Figure Natural Same Rate
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The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

State Born Freedom Assume
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I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you,

Ready Good Because Myself
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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

Slow Break Progress Natural
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Happen Week Decade Where
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One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Promise Fulfill Fool Understand
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

Relationship Parents Lithium Great
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When the results are good, everything seems prettier; when things go bad, it seems like all conflicts, personal disputes, and problems arise.

Result Good Seem Arise
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You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Pressure Team Attack Point
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

True Name Change Same
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It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.

Government Interest Nation Process
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When you’re trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain’t to be played with. You’ve got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon’ make music, let’s just make music.

Bring Already Lost Separate
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There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way.

Deserve Real Type Valid
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.

Married Early Peers School
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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.

People PDP Vote Corruption
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Nigeria Trouble Mistreatment Religion
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The crowd response has always been great, we always have fun at the shows and we will definitely be back representing our album to give people entertainment with a stage show, most rap shows are boring.

Crowd Great Show Entertainment
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If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

People Draw Agree Realize
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There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

Scare Business Strong Nobody
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Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

Relevant Decision History Statue
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We can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.

Share Never Nowhere
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Let us remember our future. What you are doing now will be credited to your future.

Remember Future Future Credited
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

Understand Newspaper People Challenge
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

Perhaps Generate Plastic Society
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I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.
Good Work Parents Influence
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

Capacity Passenger Fly London
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
Career Private Life Eye
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Motives Boast Enjoy Book
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Cause Modern World Doubt
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Fear Dead Life Love
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Software Microsoft Successful Forward
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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Software Great Combination Artistry
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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.
Career Advancing Emotional Dating
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I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.

Strong Black Narrative Educate
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

Confusing Money Period Ability
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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

People Capitalism PC Microsoft
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In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.

Smartest People World Mistakes
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It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

Sidelines Criticize Easier Something
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