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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?

Africa African Angelina Jolie Attention
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Kidnapping causes a long-term rupture in the psyche of those kidnapped and of those who wait for their return. It doesn't end.

Causes End Kidnapped Kidnapping
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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

Alive Because Close Devastating
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.

Know Want A Writer
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Been Evil Love Money
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Amount Best Go He
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

Against He His Opinion
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Animal Laughs Legislature Man
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Actions Conscious Less Lives
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Disregard Duty Faith Opinion
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Again Discouragement Drawing Everything
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Ashore Dangerous Dangers Fishermen
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Always I Love I Think Idol
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

Bad Being Change Like
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
Around Beat Bush Eye
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My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Acting Acting Class Basket Bought
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My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

Be Happy Doing Dramatic Fun
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My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

Be Happy Doing Happy Keep
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

Fast Fun Grow Grow Up
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

Always Cry Father Gets
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

Attractive Chemistry Cool Cool Guy
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Airplane Almost Back Because
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Advice Give Kids Percent
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I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

Bedtime Before Cold Cream
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I wish they would only take me as I am.

Am Me Only Take
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Blazing Came Chimney Continue
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Go Need Out Paint
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Brought Done Great Series
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Feeling Important Language Listen
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Ambition Become Boyhood Men
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Become Imagination Inspiration Model
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Accomplish Done Lies Loves
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Insight Many Master Thing
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Easy Everywhere Looking Paper
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Better Even Makes Mistakes
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

Confidence Doing Extra Give
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Around Body Breathe Car
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Activity Arises Challenge Danger
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Stillness Teaching Vehicles Around
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

God Jesus Realized Son
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Agent Believe Blade Body
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Acknowledge Balance Between Example
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Better Contained Create Creating
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Blaming Cannot Complaining Discontent
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Dimension Gratitude Life Moment
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I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

Acting Been Course Feel
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Alive Aware Become Being
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

Because Coming End Everything
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I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

Along Else Everything Everything Else
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Always Dysfunction End Evils
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