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I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

Always Free Free Time Gotta
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'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

Beyond Calm Collected Cool
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I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.

Coalition A Light Jeans Part
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Achieve Adjustment Combination Does
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Between Everything Found Grammar
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The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Facts Things Totality World
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Above Beasts Does Every
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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Believe Going Illusion Like
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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Count Feel Illusion Like
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My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

Always Away Been Big
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You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.

Being Country Life Little
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My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

Dad Feel Get Just
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I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

Ability Brain Class Cool
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I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

Always Another Apologize Band
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Africa Also As Far As Birthday
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

About Anything Aspects Avoid
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Am Around Ease Feel
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There is no respect for others without humility in ones self.

No respect Others Humility Ones self
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Passion is the drive that keeps the motor running, do what you love and possibilities seem endless!

Passion Drive Motor running Possibilities
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It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

Act Being Huge HugeResponsibility
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Happiness and well being markers for the state of a national economy have little to do with how it’s individuals feel.

Happiness Well being National economy
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We must continue to pursue individual responsibility. We must continue to do what is right, even when it is hard.

Must continue Pursue individual responsibility Right
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No road is long with good company. No ambition is too big with the requisite support. Associate yourself with wise people of good quality.

No road Good company No ambition Too big
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Do not compare yourself to other people whom you know very little about.

Compare Other people Little about
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As you move forward in life, the probability that you’re going to get it completely right the first time you try, is ZERO!

You Move forward Life Right
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The hopes, dreams and aspirations of our nation and continent rests on you! God has equipped you with special abilities that can enable you scale over any mountain. Although our problems are numerous, I still believe there is hope for Africa!

Hopes Dreams Aspirations Our nations
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Accept Actually Challenge Full
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Necessary Only Perhaps Politics
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Affect Difficulty Him Literature
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I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

Always Been Boundaries Correct
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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Always Babies Circumstances Idea
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Acting Always Artist Get
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics Professions Systematic organization
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics Unsatisfactory game
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Absolute liberty Responsibility Free individual
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Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Go IThink Maybe Moon
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Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Create Deficit DeficitSpending Deficits
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I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

Always Been Boy Cousins
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Entered Language Scene Soon
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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

About Conversations Crucial Debates
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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

According Always Deserves Familiar
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We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

About Black Conversation Everywhere
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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Algeria Begun Certain Dream
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In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

Accumulate Great Implicit Level
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

Alive Am Believe Claim
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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Does Dominant Even First
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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

Above Case Critics Cult
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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Accept Always Avoided Being
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Any Anyone Books Ever
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