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My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn't know existed.

Ever Existed Gave Happened
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You've got to be vulnerable when you're talking to kids. There's nothing worse than some adult standing up there just talking down to some kid. You can't work that way.

Adult Down Got Just
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I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.

Art Boy Considered Dog
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'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did in two years; they're gonna tell me today.

Because Classic Did Everyone
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In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.

Clothes Cool Cool Guy Felt
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All my early lyrics were about confidence.

About Confidence Early Lyrics
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I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What? Can you say that again?' I started liking it.

Accent Again America Blocking
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I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.

Acting Acting School Anything Been
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When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.

Correct How I Can Like
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I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.
Correctly I Think Idea Inception
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There are people who take on different objectives and missions in life. When you grow older, there's a a void - and right now, I'm filling a space where a lot of old rock, grime, hip-hop, punk artists left a vacant space.

Artists Different Filling Grow
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I've been trying to do this music stuff and work it out for so long... I was like, 'Let's do it for ourselves.' All these songs, we've travelled the world - no record label, nothing. We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.

Appreciated Been Did Just
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Afraid Alone Good Marriage
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Being Central Dead Enjoy
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Anything Embarked Explanation Life
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Anymore Fiction Job Just
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Explain God Idea Live
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Because Everywhere Extension Fear
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

About Been Difficulty Examining
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

Anywhere Beautiful Big Countryside
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Arts Communication Four Much
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Armed Combat Decide Engage
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Cunning Exile Ideas Keep
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Afraid Becoming Capable Doing
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Affiliation Independent Influence Outside
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Considered Dangerous Jail Repressive
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Discover Forces Hidden Life
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Being Evil Far Good
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Accompanied Death Die Enjoyment
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Always Being Discovers Finally
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Let us take control of our situation instead of being afraid, for Satan, the cause of crisis, has been defeated.
Satan Control Instead Afraid
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Liberate Mind With Music
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Have I Decided 2020
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

They Say Can Rap
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It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs

Was Strike Against That
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

Bunch Crying Executives Front
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I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

Didn't Want To Play
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Pretty Calculating Take Stuff
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Don't Have Be Scared
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Ages Books Burned Burning
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Alone Also Anticipate Businessman
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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Become Idea Long Men
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Afraid Am America Experiment
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Any Before Civilization Gift
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Analogy Decide Feel Home
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A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Act Disgrace Every Individual
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

Another Credibility Find Had
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