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I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

Awards Because Dressed Even
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Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Against Anybody Force Going
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What was freely given to me, I freely give.

Freely Give Given Me
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Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

Abandon Any Damaging Deliberately
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When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

Addiction Argue Back Because
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The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

Accepted Action Against Alternative
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.

About America Being Best
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I'm free. So, every time you hear me, just know that I'm speaking as a liberated person.
Every Every Time Free Hear
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Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens - not just how people get saved and what to stay away from.

About Away Christian Christianity
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Many times, that's how people see Christian art or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda.
Agenda Art Christian Christians
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I'm in a very comfortable place, and some of that comes from the shackles of not having to be what people want you to be.

Comfortable Having People Place
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A lot of times, we believe what the media says about us or what our awards or accolades say about us instead of what God says about us.

About Accolades Awards Believe
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If my significance comes from God, then I know I'm always secure.

Always God Know Secure
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Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment.

Appreciate Every Haunting Moment
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That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'

Able Exists Faith Fatherhood
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Merit Novelty Originality Sincerity
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I function, I live life as a Christian, and me living life as a Christian doesn't mean I'm a sanitized person. It means that I readily admit I'm a jacked up person, and I need a savior.

Admit Christian Function Life
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My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

Adhere Christian Fighting Line
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It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups.

About Any Being Black
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Honor Kind Know Man
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The biggest accolades aren't the Grammys for me. It's creating opportunities for people.
Accolades Biggest Creating Grammys
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A girl invited me to come out to a Bible study, and I said, 'Why not? I don't have anything to lose.' I went, and to my surprise, I saw people that loved God, but they were not square or rigid. They were just people like me.

Anything Bible Come Girl
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Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude.

Back Conversations Dude Forth
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A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

Affect Circumstances Conversation Culture
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My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music.

Different Experience First Former
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I've always been the type of person - you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I'm not like, 'Oh, let me get one tattoo.' It's, like, my old whole arm has to be covered.

Always Am Arm Been
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In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning.

Connection Deeper Emotional Meaning
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It's not the time to look for excuses

Excuses Look Time
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It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

Bit Depends Difficult Grass
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Alive Beast Bird Flower
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Better Die Life Live
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Art Blood Bones Creative
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

Hell Irritates Make Me
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

Allow Came Freedoms Hard
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Always Faith Had Honest
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

Care Cure Follies Mean
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Actor Audience Author Business
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

Affected Change Divorce Important
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Bad Being Funeral Perpetual
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You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
Become Celebrity Important Lives
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

Actually Different Different Shapes Dresses
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Books Lies Past PastTime
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You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

Artists Been Concept Doing
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Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

About Available Camera Carried
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This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

About Been Books Cases
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That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

Difficult Energy Enough Find
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Biography Great Great Man Great Men
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Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

Added Attack Been Center
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Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

Alive Cosmos Doing Feedback
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My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

Better Express Get Idea
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