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I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
Creature Family Dog
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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Explore Traveling Jamaica
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My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

Dream Good Live God
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The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Diversity Grow Father
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
Working Chance
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Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Universal Class New Call
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I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Judge World Know That
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How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

How Been Battle Far
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Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

Body Build Keep Hand
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Afraid Army Led Not
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There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;
Something Noble When There
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I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It’s hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don’t rest until I achieve something.

Enjoy More Work Achieve
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Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home.

Morning Before Home Solve
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My grandfather once told me; the soul of business is not making money but making people happy.

Soul Happy Told Not
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If I had challenges in my company, I would not hesitate to sell assets to remain afloat, to get to the better times, because it doesn’t make any sense for me to keep any assets and then suffocate the whole organization.

Hesitate Better Would Whole
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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Uphold Carry Able Come
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I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Met Never After Like
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If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Talent Book Well Always
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I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.

Learn Violence Culture Sheer
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It’s hard to say I don’t like being famous, but how I feel is that I don’t see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

Hard Being Famous Person
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Sportsmen just do what they do. I’m not trying to be a role model. If there’s any inspiration people can take from me, take as much as you can – from my good and my bad.

Role Good Inspiration Much
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Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I’m a man that will always follow my own path.

Positive Around Always Spirit
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I don’t have a preferred religion – I’d have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I’ve grown into my own man, I don’t attach myself to a religion – 100 percent, I have faith. Then it’s locking into what suits me.

Faith Attach Myself Suit
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The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That’s my main opponent – making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won’t let you.

More Head Main Body
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

Very Beautiful Good Play
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

World Start People One
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

Good More Work Able
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My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Race Believe Begin Fact
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When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.

Receive Return Favor Much
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Life Change Only Can
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Art Understand Necessary Love
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There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Rebel Direction Imitation Deep
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To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

The People Forgot You
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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Care Character Reputation Itself
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From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Tone Alone Love Awaken
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

Stand Gave Talent Hope
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Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude depends on who you are.

Confuse Attitude Depend Personality
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Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Worst Love Enemy Alcohol
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Hazard Ridicule Incur Abhorrence
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Reality Thought Dream Own
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The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Answer Accept Reason Only
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Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.

Torture Innocent Soul Little
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Permit me to imitate my suffering God... I am God's wheat and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Permit Imitate Teeth Pure
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I would rather Google other people than Google myself.

Myself People Rather Google
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Pride Simply Smitten Military
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

Myself Stop People Thing
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Life Important Mine Walk
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What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

Essay Image Else Come
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I'm surrounded by good people, and I surround myself with good people.

Myself People Good Surround
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But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

Heart Part Count Glory
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