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That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

Actual Actually Anyone Anything
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I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Albums Always Between Come
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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Actually Artists Controversy Deal
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People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third.

First Even Problem People
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The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

Raise About Brother Even
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Every state need not start with state policing if they can't fund it.

Fund State Start Every
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Our Work in Lagos was a Team Effort, I won’t appropriate personal responsibility for the Good Work

Good Team Work Effort
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Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

God Children Greater World
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Competition stimulates productivity. There is no state that is unable to carry out productive activity.

Activity Unable State Stimulate
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The grass is greener when you water the ground. that's what I found when I took the the ride.

Grass Greener Water Ground
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The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Love Acknwoledge Gratitude Explicit
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Powerful Powerless Gaints Paradox
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Healing Friend Silent Grief
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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Discipline Everything Planned Create
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I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

Increasing Crisis Stronger Journey
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One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Tasks Unite Create Conflict
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Build Create Design Dream
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Educate Entertain Entertained Hope
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Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Christian Leadership Relationship People
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Book Island More Pirate
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The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

Christain Completely Irrelevant Nothing
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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

People Phosphorized Untouched Instead
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For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don’t have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.

Music Emotions Tragic Greatest
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For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

Jesus Countries Imposed Dominated
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Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Fear Other Create Intimacy
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Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Holds Surprise Hearts Friends
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Create Identity Dominate Strong
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The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Man VictimSlowly Prevent Consistently
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Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Lose Use Either Must
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The females don’t respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don’t think, I’m gonna get this money on my own, they think, I’m gonna get money from this guy.

Female Respect Materialistically Guy
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Learning Greatest Mind Keep
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I like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

Prunes Olive Hummus Food
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A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Never Product Saturated Quickly
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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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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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Its mental slavery to allow foreign media dictate what we think about Nigeria & her institutions. They cant love Nigeria more than Nigerians

Mental Media Dictate Love
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Whatever foreign activists say, we must appreciate our military. When push comes to shove, they are the only folks defending us from terror.

Push Shove Terror Military
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So sad that in Nigeria, very few want to participate in revenue generation yet everyone wants to participate in revenue allocation.

Sad Few Revenue Everyone
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Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Beautiful Great Magic Potential
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Authentic Capacity Create Endure
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Artist Failure Fewer Gesture
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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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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Begin Create Imagine Live
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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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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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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 don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Instead Talking Appreciate Arrogant
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I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Answering Mail Anymore Letters
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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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