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Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like

Racism Bigots Feel Hate
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I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.
Famous Today Might Count
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Everyone around me says, “You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.

Around Genius Great Voice
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You can become famous but you can’t become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

Become Famous Unfamous Infamous
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

About Best Couple Done
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

About Articulate Does Explaining
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Awaken Demons Ghosts Hand
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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

Albums Been Done Fact
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

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There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Being Come Composer Effort
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In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be a success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.

Success Excellence Process Ignore
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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Courage Fear Forgive Peace
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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Fear Happiness Resources Poor
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Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.

Trust Working Writing Come
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“If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.”
Moving Goals Doing Away
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I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Care Courage Function Give
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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

Control Attitude Toward Happens
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If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.
Poor Live Long Likely
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I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it's what I love, and it's all I care about, so I'm good with it.

Care Every Good Much
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“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Success Focus Things Fear
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Build Too Many Walls
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Allowed Anyone Child Disrespectful
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Calculate Motion Heavenly Bodies
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Man May Imagine False
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“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.”

Never Say Yourself Come
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Think Afraid Greatness Steppingstone
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

Uncertainty Flee Future
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Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Successful Forward Stop Fewer
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“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

About Titles Flowchart Life
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“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”

Become What Remaining Need
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“Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.”

Alternative Overlook Practice Talents
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“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

Great Leader Courage Vision
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“Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.”

Happiness Simple Success Measure
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“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”

Unimportance Overestimate Pratically Everything
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“If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

Peace Cannot Control Happens
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“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.”

Man Want Keep Away
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

Integrity Knowing Right Doing
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The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Christian Constant Deep Discouragement
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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Character Health Lost Nothing
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Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Bring Except Home Love
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It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
Attitude Body Count Heart
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The midfielders are important: they have to offer themselves to receive the ball and make good use of it, take choices, try not to lose the ball and defend. But I don't feel like a leader at all.

Ball Choices Defend Feel
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I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

Audience Divide Political Subject
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I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Read Learned Papers Fools
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God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

Channel Give God Hand
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'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Anyone Because Before Behind
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I prefer not to compare teams because it's not fair at all.

Because Compare Fair Not Fair
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“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. Trust your instincts, good relationships feel good, they feel right, they don’t hurt.”

Trust Good Relationship Right
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“Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.”

Possibilities Decisions Happen Hope
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Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Think Afraid Fail Greatness
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