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I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.

Born Know Loved Here
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened

Dragonfly Hovering Face Enlightened
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Instead of doing what everybody else does and sue the city of Los Angeles, I decided I was going to run for mayor.

City Doing Going Run
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

Reggae Bigger Limits Journey
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me

Jamaica Place Energies Different
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I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it

Personality Hearing Music Type
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I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Yard Tree Granted Alive
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life, which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Man Ethical Obey Shrink
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Great Life Man Secret
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Life Devote Help Need
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I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Know Want Passion Feel
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Has Who Person More
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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Explore Traveling Jamaica
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Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

Problems America
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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

Teacher Orphanage
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Carry Spirit Child Secret
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Matter Bad Time
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Sun Melt Evaporate Constant
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The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Diversity Grow Father
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URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

Incubators Grassroots Hospital
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Equal Sane Time That
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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.

Live Give Thing. Know
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Learn How Free Past
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Somebody Pain People Can
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book Bad Much Soul
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Long Men Will Them
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Sink Same Sane Boat
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Can Have First Has
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Universal Class New Call
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Judge World Know That
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Planet Shall Long Live
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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Gain Sure Certain Love
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True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

True Has Happy Love
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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Generation Race Constant Courage
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Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame

Risk Thing Price Fame
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Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home.

Morning Before Home Solve
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Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don’t go to bed until you have achieved something productive.

Work Hard Have Attain
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Passion is what drives me forward. Passion is what makes me go to bed at 2am and wake up at 6am.
Passion Drive Make Wake
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I always tried to move up the food chain. I started with cement and then moved into textiles and banking. When I was trading sugar, I added salt and flour so that then we could do pasta. And then I thought, why not make the bag for it, too? So, we started making packaging.

Always Chain Then When
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If I had challenges in my company, I would not hesitate to sell assets to remain afloat, to get to the better times, because it doesn’t make any sense for me to keep any assets and then suffocate the whole organization.

Hesitate Better Would Whole
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I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me thirty years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

Journey Supreme Dream Build
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Manufacture, don’t just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

Trade Even Start Product
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No one has ever become poor by giving.
Poor Ever Has Become
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As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

Sunshine Sky Enjoy Long
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Remedy Afraid Outside Alone
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No matter how big and strong you are even Tyson said he was scared as hell walking to the ring. Everyone feels the pressure.

Strong Big Pressure Matter
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When you are around people who have money, you realize money isn’t that impressive, it’s about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

Conduct Money Around People
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I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.

Learn Violence Culture Sheer
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It’s hard to say I don’t like being famous, but how I feel is that I don’t see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

Hard Being Famous Person
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Sportsmen just do what they do. I’m not trying to be a role model. If there’s any inspiration people can take from me, take as much as you can – from my good and my bad.

Role Good Inspiration Much
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