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If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

About Because Comedian Death
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I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.

Actress Always Aspire Aspired
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You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

About Actress Black Coming
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I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

Acting Always Care Don't Care
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Every job I've ever gotten has transformed me in some way as an actor.
Actor Ever Every Gotten
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I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated.

Challenged Convenient Even Know
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
About Editor Good Meddle
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Any Formula Great More
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Books Enough Kept Long
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Exceed Flies Flowers Me
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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Again Complain Heard Him
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Always Finds Hands Idle
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Acquire Come Depart Down
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You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Basketball Besides Game Gave
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

Church Entertainment Expression Growing
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I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

Able Dash Field ILove
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

Abroad Barack Barack Obama Common
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If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.
Cruel Got Right Saying
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

Art Artistic Balance Both
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

Degree Expectations Life Like
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I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

Afford Because Fight Game
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Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Being Definitely Fast Grow
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I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

Bunch Comedy Could Funny
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I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

Friends Get Hear Honestly
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Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

After Better Could Focus
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But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

About Any Being Ever
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And winning is a huge thing for me

Huge HugeThing Me Thing
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I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Basketball Championships Every Fulfilled
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Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

Always Back Feeling Follow
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I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

City Grow GrowUp Household
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Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Always Home Life MyLife
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I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

Am Anybody Basketball Because
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When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

Always Apartment Because Comfortable
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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Fellow Ask Country Do
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others

Tolerance Lack Commitment Belief
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I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

Think Each Artist Lives
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When hip-hop came along, men and women started dressing down as a form of rebellion.

When Hip-hop Came Along
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Progress Nation Swifter Education
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Goal Education Advancement Knowledge
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Swanky means classy and funky.

Swanky Means Classy Funky
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Mothers Sons Grow President
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I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

Was Raised Nigeria My
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Courage Life Dramatic Spectacle
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
War Exist Conscientious Objector
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Time Repair Roof Sun
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I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Wanted Remind Myself Others
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I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.

Gone Down Several Paths
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Nations Wishes Well Price
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For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.

For Me It's Important
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I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

Think The Jobs Artist
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