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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

According Aspect Between Dad
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

1 Percent Any Believe Benefit
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I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

After Boy DJ He
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

Art Art Form Artists Business
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Everything is possible in Nigeria, only those benefiting from the countries chaos and backwardness will say different.

Nigeria Possible Chaos Backwardness
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

History About Parts Story
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Story Far Begin Surface
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Reality Order Create Art
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Actively Activist Came Father
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Beautiful Beauty Come Considered
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Away Counts Left Take
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Ocean Sea Sail Watch
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I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

Problems Seek Truth Historical
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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Poverty Means Fears Above
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Dedicated Great Task Honored
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Assertion Men Created Equally
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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

I Pass Life Preventing
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

Talked Great Men Differ
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Government People Shall Perish
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I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

Need Protect Measures Protect
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

Differs Does Evil He
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

All-Powerful Animals Architect Character
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Agriculture Barren Consequently Derive
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Boy Correcting Discourage Effort
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Almost Body Differs Gifts
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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Am Back Battle Event
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It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

About Affecting Age Appreciate
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The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Dog Life Uneducated Man
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

One Excellent Thing Learned
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I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Life Between Kind Living
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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Different Intention Kind Letters
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And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Freud Insights Magnificent Man
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

Decided Early Editors Everybody
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I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

Exactly Old Family Kitchen
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

Been Book Could Fashion
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Arranged Beginning Consciousness End
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Any Believed Could Curious
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Mind Richly Tapestry Distilled
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I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

About Being Country Country Music
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The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Theme Humiliation Square Root
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So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.

Always Big Big Part Came
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

Who You Are Have
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The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

Always Away Been College
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Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

Better Better Place Just Make
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I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

Between Champagne Competition Deserve
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Lover Beloved Two Come
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

Audience Course Courting Different
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Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.

Read Remote Southwest Tradition
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From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.

Characters Meet Crazy Many
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
He Who Without Newspaper
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