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I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.

Learn Violence Culture Sheer
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Courage Triumph Conquer Absence
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Over Career Unlike Life
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What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

Change Jail Different Lifestyle Learned
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All in all I learned a lesson from it though, you never see it coming you just get to see it go.

Lesson Get Never See
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I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.

Better Could Picture Learn
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Books Freedom Personal Discover
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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

Again Change Does Down
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What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle – this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

Lifestyle Jail Change Made
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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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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

Anxious Been Between Blogging
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The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.

First Thing Learned School
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

About Between Books I Think
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Imagination Learned Long Much
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Actor Applied Basically Everything
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What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.

Bringing Close Even Greatest
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I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.

Arrived Just Kid Learned
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

Fortunately Had Hand Know
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
Better Biggest Biggest Thing Learned
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From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Age Allowing Businesses Creatively
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Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

Eventually Learned Love Nature
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I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

Bridge Build Calm Combination
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

Blues Dance Jazz Learned
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I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?

Choir Early Important Itself
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I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

Learned Read School Teach
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Career Enjoy Learned Suffering
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I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

Business Comedy Everything Life
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I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.
Crazy Family Give Learned
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All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

About Around Family Focused
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Adventurous Age Dad Formative
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I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

Feel Lazy When Working
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Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.

Everything Learned Life Me
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I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.

Debt Early Home How
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I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.
God Learned Purpose Steps
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I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

Always Become Before Cats
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

Enough Goal Good I Quit
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

Age Could Early Early Age
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Characters Hemingway Learned Listen
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
About Beer Chewed Drink
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Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Dealing With Backstabbers There
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Friends Good Judgment Learned
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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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I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

Learned Great Years Fight
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Learned Well Graduated Sued
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I learned early that class is universally admired.
Learned Class Universally Admired
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

Critique Early Either Learned
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Hard HardWork Learned Value
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Activities Anything Everything Learned
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What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
Advantage Been Business Business Career
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Bowls Changed Children Citizen
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