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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.

Fun Had Lot Recording
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Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

Ability About Everything Good
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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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For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

Rob Citizen That Every
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I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

Dead Lives Behold Forevermore
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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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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Adversity Best Had Happens
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I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Tremendous Depression Real Rather
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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Community Wounded People Broken
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.

Beauty White Flavour Shade
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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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What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time’s up?

Live Dreams Possibilities Time
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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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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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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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I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
Stage Minutes Fright Remember
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Voice Happened Before Tap
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

Perform Would Trying Bomb
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To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.

Working Game Changer Confidence
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I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist.

Hungry Cultures Exist Suffer
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you

Always Behind Face Sunshine
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Crises Emergencies Great Greater
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Anything Education Had Men
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Miles Shadow
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Looking Nice But Comfort
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Act Had Quality Want
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

People Blunt Dealing Attempt
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Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

Actually Alex Best Ever
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Ancient Ancient Because Both
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Due Had Lincoln Look
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Had Blues Shoes Until
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Courtesy Drink Drove Had
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Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Many Detractors Unsurprisingly Still
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Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

Universal Respected Genres Universal
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

Group Ground Broken Stopped
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Done Get Anticipation Life
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We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Nothing Lose Everything Gain
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People should not just look at people who are on top. They should go and study how they got there and the challenges they had to face as they while climbing the ladder.

Top People Look Study
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When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn’t focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it’s fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

Impress Country Focus Younger
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In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

Crossed Day Early Every
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Successful Life Worldly Blessing
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

Attention Retire Win Command
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Obedience Thanks Blessing God
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If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Obstacles Roadblocks Climb Figure
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I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it.
Achieve Aggressive Out Realized
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What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Express Reason Invent Imagine
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I’m proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you had ever done.

Proud Second Best Ever
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