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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

Better Book Cambridge Chosen
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Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Everything Money Averted face Worth
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We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Cannot Course Disprove Fairies
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Got offered Romantic leads Role
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I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Actually may Musical Star in My concert
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It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

Nice Redefine ourselves Diversity Bad thing
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I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Believe Afterlife Think Somebody passes
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Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

Nothing blind People Common enemy Voters
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The fool is not he who asks what and when he/ she doesn’t know. The fool is he/she that is so confident that they don’t ask out of pride, so they don’t seem dumb and they still end up making fools of themselves!

Fool Who ask Confident Pride
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There has never been, there isn’t and there will never be another YOU. That’s your secret power!!!

Never Another you Secret power
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Note your enemies’ failure doesn’t mean you yourself will succeed- it simply means we have more failures around us- rather we should focus on being the best we can be!

Your enemies Failure Succeed More
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Marriage is not just what you want to get into because it is time, or that you are getting old, or because people are looking at you to must-have settled down.

Marriage Want Get Time
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I was advised to seize the opportunity and sing the tribute song for Mandela because I was inspired by his story, and he was not only loved in South Africa but in the whole world.

Advised Opportunity Sing Tribute
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If you have listened to some of my songs, you would notice that they have stories. I use my songs to tell stories.

Listened Songs Have stories Tell
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I cannot rap to save my life. The few times I tried it in the privacy of my house, my friends told me to shut my mouth because I was just doing rubbish. I can handle all other genres of music except rap.

Save My life Privacy House
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Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

Am Because Ensemble Every
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I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

Actor Adrenaline Coming Downside
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Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show.

Another Anything Connected Drama
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.

Acting Always American American Idol
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Alarm Consists Courtship Nor
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Amusing Change Ideas Nothing
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Ask Govern Governs Here
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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Learned May Rote Sciences
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Absurd Argument Been Christian
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
Does English Man Men
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Add Alas Contentment Grandeur
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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Another Button Cause Life
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The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

Passive Ironic Attitude Destructive
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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We see things as we are, not as they are.

See Things We see They
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Artist Artwork Care Chance
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Above Before Cannot Cynicism
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Capitalist Fascism Nothing Reaction
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Antagonistic Between Commitment Doubt
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Believing Force Gravity Same
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
Interested May Strategy You
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Case Mastered Most Noticed
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Cases England European Last
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The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

Approval Cannot Class Endure
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When I started music, I did not know my songs would become evergreen.

Started music Songs Evergreen
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There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

So much Can do Chance Nothing
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Beyond Condition Constitution Covenant
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

I learned Career Things Power over
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As young people, you do not need permission to participate. You must occupy your space because there is no governance without citizen engagement and youth-led accountability.

Young people Permission Occupy Your space
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We cannot shrink the future of Africa in accepting its reality.

Shrink The future Reality
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When injustice is perceived, young people look upon violent groups as legitimate fighters, not perpetrators of violence.

Injustice Young people Violent groups
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I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

Be Careful Both Careful Drink
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I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Able Bad Does Enjoy
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Most of the big companies are owned by men; let’s support each other as women so that we can also achieve such business success. This will not come easily, but it’s a journey we need to embark on now.

Big companies Support Women Achieve
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