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You have to be willing to allow the person you are today to DIE so that you can give birth to the person you are meant to become

You have to be willing to allow the person you are today to DIE so that you can give birth to the person you are meant to become
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“The people that want to step into their greatness are hungry.”

People Hungry Greatness Want
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The state is captive to vested interests.

State Captive Vested Interests
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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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When you fight corruption, it fights back.

You Fight Corruption Back
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Your harvest is not in view until your prayers rise up to heaven.

Harvest Prayers Rise Heaven
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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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A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

Good Businessman Nose Journalists
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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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A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

Art Chords Country Country Music
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Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

About Anybody Concerned Gay
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Back Behind Bright Bring
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Fill Heart Paper Your
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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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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

Believe Find Need Out
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Nearer Oftentimes Soar Stoop
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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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The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Artists Back Just Love
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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 always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.

Always Anything Because Enough
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I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.
Around Board Got Just
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It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Always Business First Gonna
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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Always Attached Giving Great
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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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Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Album Always Bought Experience
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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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The difference between dreams and success is that dreams need effortless sleep and success needs sleepless efforts.

Dream Need Effort Sleep
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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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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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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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Nigerians need not vilify those who disagree with us politically, or treat them as less patriotic or even as felons.

Treat Vilify Patriotic Disagree
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It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society.

Easy Stop Envelope Brown
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Success is when God is happy with you, when the closest people around you are happy and when your soul is at peace with you.

Success God Happy People
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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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The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

Raise About Brother Even
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As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

Price Never Fixed Cheque
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The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

Economy Debt Evil Review
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

Abuse Plus Process Power
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My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

Under Urgency Policed Police
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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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Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Tomorrow Let Trouble Sufficient
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Before we increase taxes, we must optimize the capacity to get that which is in the place.

Increase Place Capacity Before
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I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Rich Kingdom Heaven Man
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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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