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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

Around Corner Distinctive Footsteps
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

Astonishment Been Centuries Did
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The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Feel Ability Singer Art
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

World Preserved Quality Enriched
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Women Education Work Income
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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Ability Apology Complain Go
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As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Entrepreneur Investor Artist Influencer
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I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Ignorant Learning Subject Psychology
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I feel as though, if you're able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality.

Ability Able Achieve Area
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As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don't have no exit strategy. It's just living in the false reality that it's going to be like this forever.

Artist Brand Rapper Window
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Duty Every Every Opportunity Implies
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Ability Any Coffee Commodity
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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Almost Almost Everything Any Essential
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Complete Day Excuses Making
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

Almost Any Atheist Feeling
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I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

Cases Court Get Interested
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Adapting Cinema Cost Culture
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Even Ever Girl Little
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
Along Everybody Fidelity Life
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

Create Customers Dealing Important
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Despise Enough Few People
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I think I have always had a little humor.

Always Had Humor IThink
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Clocks Slay Dread Clicked
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

American Literature British Source
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

World Today Equality Color
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Consists Made Many Reality
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Behold Eyes Less Life
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Because Earth Elements Extract
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Little Attitude Negative Big
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
Inclined Think Military Background
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all

Gratitude Electricity Discharged
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow

World Equality Color Race
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom Hierarchy Caste System
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I stay militant. They turned me into this rebel militant I am today. And I'm glad they did.
Militant Me Rebel Glad
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Affections Benevolent Constitute Exercise
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Literature Only School Talent
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Passions Man Butterflies Known
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

About Administration Barbarism Being
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

My Own Own Reality Reject
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Detail Hard Submit Exceed
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Admire Confidence Kindness Most
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
Cannot Mix Politics Sports
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Action Besides Director Educate
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Absolutely Dangerous Dangerous Thing Deal
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

Acted Asked Get Knew
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Because Containing Face Invested
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Amount Any Bloody Intelligence
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Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Father Feels Getting Good
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Against Armed Changing Conquest
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