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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Stand Believe Alone Sometimes
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For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus

Cliche Beauty Outside Love
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Racism is ignorant. And it’s stupid. And it’s old. And it’s played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? ‘Let’s all get along’ – I’m so tired of that damn sentence, but it’s true.

Racism Tired Ignorant Old
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When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Affordable Again Care Congress
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Background Become Clear Itself
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Being Boy Duty Emotion
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Continuous Fiction Form Newspaper
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Age Life Little Long
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Best Escape Interest Only
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Life is a sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still thee to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Admire Honor Serve Experience
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Write Ability Endowed Nature
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Sharpen Blunt Mellow Personal
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Live Build Cheap House
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Solid Break Feel Term
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

About Alive Did Done
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And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become … all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings.

Human Animal Race Cruel
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When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.

People Courage Resist Right
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His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

Light Mouth Gash Human
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I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.

Average Beach Everyday Flip
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I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

Amazing Appreciate Dedicate Fan
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When someone feels trapped in what feels like a hopeless situation, pulling the trigger or swallowing pills or hanging yourself seems like the only way out.

Feel Pill Situation Out
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Maternal desire is the profound emotional need to mother a baby. This stems from either the tragic loss of her own child, or the inability to have one at all.

Desire Emotion Baby Stem
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I once dated a guy who washed his car more than he washed his hair.
Wash Hair Car Once
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You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

Preach Sermons Sinners Short
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I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

Image Portrait Kept Push
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Debate Culture History Divergence
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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Things Own Like Inanimate
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I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.

Ambition Worth Blood Nigerian
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Women need to be giving the opportunities to tap into their talents, and energy is being wasted on a daily basis.

Women Need Talents Energy
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

Social Media Simply Actions
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I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.

Blow Did Expect Good
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I like me some Bape, you know. But I wear anything, to be honest. Adyn, Rick Owens, Givenchy, anything. I shop from everywhere.

Anything Everywhere Honest Know
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When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

African Back Fabric Home
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Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

Able Baggy Bit Cuts
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Umm... my favourite Wizkid tune of all time would be 'Don't Dull' 'cos I recorded the track in, like, 5 minutes. The beat was ready, we went into the studio and freestyled, and it was ready. The song became really, really big, so I think 'Don't Dull' is still my favourite.

Beat Became Big Dull
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Whenever I make music, I just make it depending on however I feel at that moment and what I'm getting inspiration from, so it depends - whatever, it's just my mood.

Depending Depends Feel Getting
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Whatever happens on tour... stays on tour!

Happens Stays Tour Whatever
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If you're coming to do an interview with me, you should know about me. It's not that it's 'cos I'm Wizkid; I'd even hate it if you were coming to interview my friend and asked him the same question. You're here for an interview, so you should know who you're doing the interview with.

About Asked Coming Doing
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The only thing fame has changed in Wizkid is that I added some accessories. I have got nice chains, watches, and nice clothes. Asides that, I am still Wizkid. I no tall, still same height.

Accessories Added Am Chains
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It's not like a boss and artist relationship; it's like a big brother to a younger brother relationship, and he's a great guy. So big shout-out to Akon and the Konvict Muzik crowd.

Artist Big Big Brother Boss
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We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.

African Artists Definitely Earn
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It's crazy how a whole lot of African artists work. Big respect to everyone that does it, but I have not heard anything that really cuts across. We're trying to do that.

Across African Anything Artists
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I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

Educated Fact Flower Gives
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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Cause Create Help Our
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If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Got Honey Money Out
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I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time
Been Going Gone Leaving
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As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

Farmers Few Fighting Keep
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All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Give Golf Me Music
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I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

After Along Before Get
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I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Around Cotton Cotton Fields Fields
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