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Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

About American Ask Documentation
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I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Applications Based Benefit Gained
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America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

America Been Crushed Depression
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I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Earn Heart Massachusetts Out
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I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

Bad Bad Ideas Body Bus
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I have to prove myself to everybody.

Everybody Myself Prove Have
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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

About Brothers Building Courtship
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Accept Against Aim Always Asked
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Epitaph Had Lover Me
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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Army Chance Entire Given
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And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

Admit Doctor Frightened Frustrated
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I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

Buy End Get Money
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I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

Away Day Day-To-Day Life
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I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
Buddies Death Great Him
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And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Agreed Anyway Because Change
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Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

Battling Britain Fair Fair Share
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I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

Because Better Did Ground
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I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

Leave Like Man Money
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I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Charts Compete I Can Just
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As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

About Accept Days Elton
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God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Back Career Communicating Creative
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I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

Got Income Live Lot
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My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

Brought Church Created Family
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My beloved Nigerians, those who need us from last year downwards, they have killed the country. None of them is qualified to stay in this country by now.

Stay Country Killed Need
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I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
Like Out Pass Ready
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I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

Chose Doctors Earthquake Fugitive
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The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.

Against Always Blows Change
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
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In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

America Die People Really
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It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

About Am Article Bad
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The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.

Animators Bad Bad Way Cash
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My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

Anything Basically Birth Childbirth
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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

Being Everyone Hates He
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This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Could Guys Hear Laughing
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I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.

Brown Dentist Going He
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I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
Dogs Family Found Looked
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With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

Best Birthday Ever Get
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I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Age Fact Food Had
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I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

Cheats Good Good-Looking Goodness
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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

Her Interrupt Spoken Want
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Always Found Kid Lot
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Better Body Like More
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I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

Attacked Being Controlled Girl
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

Calendar Day Getting Jealousy
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My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Always Day Did Eye
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I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Get Honest Luck No Respect
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What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

About Bee Birds Butcher
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What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
Arm Bone Dog Favorite
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My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

Afraid Dark Light Me
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My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

Coming Coming Home Door Home
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