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For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus

Cliche Beauty Outside Love
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When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Look Mirror Decide Change
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Background Become Clear Itself
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Life is a sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still thee to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Admire Honor Serve Experience
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Write Ability Endowed Nature
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Sharpen Blunt Mellow Personal
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Live Build Cheap House
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Young Think Lose Sure
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

About Alive Did Done
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Job Kids Manners Learning
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

About Again Beginning Came
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And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become … all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings.

Human Animal Race Cruel
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When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.

People Courage Resist Right
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His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

Light Mouth Gash Human
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Harder Work You Luckier
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

Act Again Almost Easy
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I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

Amazing Appreciate Dedicate Fan
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Maternal desire is the profound emotional need to mother a baby. This stems from either the tragic loss of her own child, or the inability to have one at all.

Desire Emotion Baby Stem
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Debate Culture History Divergence
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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Things Own Like Inanimate
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I have a lot of tailors. If I want something made in 12 hours, it will be made in 12 hours.
Hours Lot Made Something
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Umm... my favourite Wizkid tune of all time would be 'Don't Dull' 'cos I recorded the track in, like, 5 minutes. The beat was ready, we went into the studio and freestyled, and it was ready. The song became really, really big, so I think 'Don't Dull' is still my favourite.

Beat Became Big Dull
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Whenever I make music, I just make it depending on however I feel at that moment and what I'm getting inspiration from, so it depends - whatever, it's just my mood.

Depending Depends Feel Getting
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The only thing fame has changed in Wizkid is that I added some accessories. I have got nice chains, watches, and nice clothes. Asides that, I am still Wizkid. I no tall, still same height.

Accessories Added Am Chains
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We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.

African Artists Definitely Earn
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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Cause Create Help Our
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What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Changed Else Everything Everything Else
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Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Country Even Feeling Listen
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I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

Age Artists Being Guys
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I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

Anybody Between Borders Broke
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I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

Because Defend Elected Except
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I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

About Email Extent Family
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I have never seen myself as a small person. I have always seen myself as a big boy, a captain, the leader.

Never Myself Person Captain
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Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!

Kings Don't Beg Destiny
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I will rather kill myself than commit suicide.

Kill Myself Commit Suicide
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When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.

About Band Bars Distance
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Decorate More Often Pictures
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Business Crook Doing Feared
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Better Divided Future Learn
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My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Always Close Come Expect
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I'll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

You Dead Will Ideas
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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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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

Kind People We Nurtured
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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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Sister life is deeper. Deeper life is sister.

Sister Life Deeper
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Anywhere money dey me I go to.

Anywhere Money Dey Me
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I think even outside of being an artist, anyone with success should always put themselves in a position to help others.

Always Position Other Anyone
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Education is the most critical tool for transforming individuals and spurring growth and development.

Growth Tool Most Development
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Democracy cannot thrive without freedom of the press.

Thrive Freedom Press Democracy
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There are times we spent money when we shouldn't, the choices we make define the results we get.

Spend Define Result Choice
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