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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?

Remember War Scared Real
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There are times you can’t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Sweet Mountain Valley Punch
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Fundamentally Wrong Charity Poverty
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Directly Providing Service Comes
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I’ve loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

Race Regularly Watch Father
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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Hand Energy Ideas Irresistible
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Observation People Waste Ahead
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Thinking Probably Reason Engage
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Someone Time Limited Living
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Grieves Marching Onward Setbacks
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Great Surprise Afraid Makes
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If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
Someday Certainly Right Last
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Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Hit Brick Head Convinced
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Nigeria confuses kids by telling them to be patriotic irrespective of ethnicity only to use state of origin as admission criteria in schools.

Confuse Patriotic Origin State
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We should think twice before washing our dirty linen before the world. It doesn’t just reduce our opponents. It also reduces us to the world.

World Reduce Dirty Twice
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Dont wait til Ramadan or Christmas to give food to the poor in your village. Give them education and they will learn how to feed themselves.

Learn Poor Give Feed
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Nigeria needs politicians for whom politics is a vocation not an occupation, who make money from their businesses not the public treasury.

Public Politics Vocation Money
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Art Become Hide Magic
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Africa Come Future About
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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Agreement Either Even Felt
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You cannot run faster than a bullet

Run Faster Bullet You
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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beginning Begin Circle Come
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
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I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Good Hearing People Reason
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.

Burn Idea Problem Passionate
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Settle Heart Better Relationship
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As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

Nobody Touch Truth Long
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I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Spilled Cruelty Necessary Disharmony
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Actor Movies Seriously Set
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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Woman Creativity Destroy Judge
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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Job Easy People Great
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Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Hope Person Defeated Does
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I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Mirror Morning Today Answer
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Focus Simplicity Complex Worth
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.

Heavy Success Light Begin
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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Travel Backpack Bunch Clif
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Life People Influence Build
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Do your best at every job. Don’t sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

Success Hire Hungry Job
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Work Hate Love Someone
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I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

Want Pass Smooth Through
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I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

Dysfunctional Child People Generic
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The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

Focus Appearance Surprised Me
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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Big Easily Fall Great
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