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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

My father Running Sensible Wasting time
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

Enough training Believe Yourself Mentality
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

Achieved something Running Exploded Country
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

Politician Next step Want power
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Eradicate poverty Matters Country Training
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I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

Doing Enjoying Great Know
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I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

Because Calm Deliberately Down
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Being Eat Eaten Enough
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Abyss All My Life Been Bottom
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Acts Amusing Dying Find
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I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

More cautious My choices Reflects
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My life is together, both professionally and socially.

My life Professionally Socially
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

My process Thinking about Stories Time
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To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

Best Best Part Day Dove
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I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

Against Determined Had Horn
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I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Age Around Arrested Back
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When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.

All My Life Armstrong Been Began
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Goal Led Lies Me
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Young people need to be taught financial management. My mother taught me to live within my means and never depend on debt.
Young people Financial management Live Means
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Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Ah King Lose Should
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I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

Been Bought Know Made
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You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

After Became Calm Death
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My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.

Building Child Contrary Going
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That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

Like Me More Should
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My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

According Between Considered Court
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The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.

After Ambassador Any Confess
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I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

Am Buff Hear I Am
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The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

Could Itself Life Music
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The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Against Better Fight Myself
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I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Act Because Bucket Cleaned
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I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

About Album Another Going
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One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

Listen Never Old Old Stuff
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Guitar Important Important Part Most
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Anybody Best Compass Else
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I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Albums Anything Little Me
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With all my imperfections on my head,
Anchor Imperfections Hauled Stream
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Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

Account Anything Away Bank
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I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Actor Always Been Camera
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It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Basis Century Chief Clinical
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You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

Did Done First Interview
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Being part of a team that finds an HIV Vaccine will be my greatest scientific accomplishment.

Being part Finds Vaccine Scientific accomplishment
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HIV pulled me into medical research from a clinician/pediatrician, revolving around young women and their children. It has in some ways enriched me and, in some ways, embattled my life.

Medical research Clinic Revolving around Young women
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My biggest strength is that I do not fear strength in others, I celebrate it.

Biggest strength Fear Others
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

Anyone Murdered Little Possible
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Most of my education has been around food.

Around Been Education Food
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Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

Always Been Being Born
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Existence Give Making Myth
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Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Am Answering Give Identity
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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

A Good Man Always Back Been
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I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

Along Boy Guitar Her
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