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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

Also Discovery Explained Hope
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When your own journey is not taking the straight course you’d like, it’s easy to focus on what someone else is doing.

Own journey Straight course Focus
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Time is too precious to waste, but time is not the determining factor in your destiny. That is a partnership between you and your creator.
Time Precious Waste Factor
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Our fast-paced culture can make us become frustrated with destiny’s process.

Culture Make us Frustrated Destiny process
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Yes, share your time, but don't invest more in others than in yourself.

Share Time Invest Yourself
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A changed mind means even if people come at you with the same behaviour, you don’t respond in the same way you used to.

Changed mind People Same behaviour
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Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.
Never again Ghanaians Dubious Live
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Your journey might be different from mine but still, do not aspire to be like me but better than me. Times have been bad, rough and difficult but note this; nothing happens overnight so do not be in a hurry.

Journey Mine Better than Overnight
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You don’t know what I had to fight, how long it took for me to get here, where I came from and so do not aspire to be like me, be better than me.

Better than Fight How long Aspire
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Don't be surprised if you don't connect as a father right away. That's the one thing... No one ever talked to me about it.

About Away Connect Ever
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Maybe you're a little selfish that day; maybe you want something, and it can't happen, but you don't want to take no for an answer. Everybody has those moments, and you just have to be okay with being open and showing it.

Answer Being Day Everybody
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At the end of the day, sometimes we don't always get along, because when do friends always get along? But we are a family first and even more than just being brothers in a band.

Along Always Band Because
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We Skype all the time - me and my brothers, and especially me and Dani. Anytime we're apart from the person we're with, we're always trying to be in touch and call.

Always Anytime Apart Brothers
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I think my craziest Hollywood moment was performing at the Grammys with Stevie Wonder.

Craziest Grammys Hollywood I Think
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We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative... Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.

About Aspect Business Business Side
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It's not your responsibility to comment on parenting for others. I would hate if someone did that to me.

Comment Did Hate Me
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There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.

Age Becoming Being Broadway
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I am blessed that I get to do this thing I love to do, and if I wasn't doing this, I'd probably be working as Starbucks. So the fact that I get to travel around on a tour bus all around the country is pretty awesome.

All Around Am Around Awesome
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Ever since me and the brothers no longer make music together, I stepped aside, and I've been doubling down here in the tech world.

Aside Been Brothers Down
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For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.

Across Birthday Country Flew
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The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

Between Come Did Either
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Moms are sometimes the craziest because they know they want to get their daughters to be seen by us or get an autograph.

Autograph Because Craziest Daughters
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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Darkness Gets Healing Hurt
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At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

Because Celebrating Family Friends
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I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.
IThink Think Time Woman
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I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

About Bothered Come Deal
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Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Becomes Cheap Love Love Is
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I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or wat

Arrived Blood Born Food
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Affluence Any Borrow Flour
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My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

Became Big Big Thing Declaring
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I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

Able Been Happened Hear
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

After Around Been Behind
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There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles

Believe Bible Going Me
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory

Braille Damn Develop Ear
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So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you.

Come Getting Going IThink
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I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

Because Car CDs Everybody
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You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

Get Know Lot Me
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Demos Finished FinishedProduct Going
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Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

Mad Hope Bite Other general
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I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

Bit Came Come Dallas
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I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

Spend money War Science Pleasant
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Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

Born Educated Glory
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To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Bad Good GoodAndBad GoodOnes
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A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

Traitor Everyone Agree
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

Artist Been Crossover IThink
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Contradict myself Improve wonderfully
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I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
Any Ashamed Country IThink
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In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

The theatre Believe Woman Ladies
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Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
Love Emotion Feels Man
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