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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Own Being Purge Schooled
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.

Jealous Been Never
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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Explore Traveling Jamaica
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I've tried body surfing. It's nice.

Body Nice
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I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Met Never After Like
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

Good More Work Able
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How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?

When You From How
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Success People Wrote Down
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It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't come back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.

Away Hurt Hard Someone
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

Time Important Care Hard
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Need Lost Wheelchair Technically
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Medical People Mental Health
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Nigeria Trouble Mistreatment Religion
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
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I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.

Else Everybody Everybody Else Gas
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I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Bad Bad Things Good Good People
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I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.

Barack Barack Obama Been Democratic
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I don't think I've ever had a bad Valentine's Day, I mean... c'mon, y'all know I never get a bad Valentine. Nah. Um, no, I've never really had - I don't have a bad Valentine's Day. I never really think... it doesn't come up to my mind.

Bad Come Day Ever
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I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is.

Won Continue Win Way
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Been Book Day Got
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I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.

Always Created Instrument Myself
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For me 'Submarine', is probably one of the most important things I've done and it will always remain the closest thing to my heart. It was an amazing experience and it really changed things for me after I'd finished filming it because of the people on it.

Important Submarine Probably One
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I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing.

Studio Work Getting Amazing
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I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

African Almost Ancestors Being
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

Serious Grown Being Relationship
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

Voice Knew Always Front
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

Capable Stupid Proof Perfume
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I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
Family Work Hard Money
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

Home Animal Sleep Baby
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

Always Going Got Great
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

About Because Classroom Excited
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I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Accept Accidental Come Hard
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I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

About Always Arts Career
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

About Best Couple Done
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Album Allowed Got Guy
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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Frankly Input Interesting Interpretations
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I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Amazing Anywhere Else Lived
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Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Any Away Does Longer
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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

Albums Been Done Fact
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I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Able About Always Anything
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I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.

Picture Powerless Small Smile
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Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

Also Aside Dancer Dancing
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Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

Ear Life Loved Much
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I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

Always Been Decided Gonna
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All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Life Been Die Grow
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Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Believe Interest Life Lose
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Neuer is by far the best keeper I've played with and is also outstanding outfield.

Also Best Far Keeper
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I've been lucky, but I have earned that luck.

Been Earned Luck Lucky
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I've played with great players and worked with great managers; I've learned a lot from all of them.

Great Learned Lot Managers
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That's one thing that I've always wanted: to make my own decisions and not to be pushed. That has happened in my career, and I wanted to leave football, not football to leave me. I wanted to enjoy it as much as I could and to leave it a little bit earlier than too late.

Always Bit Career Could
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