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I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.

Trust people Bit firm Fault Father
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Future Good Had Homeless
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Allen Bring Death Entire
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Being Glamorous Had Look
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

Around Good Homeless Living
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

After Been Better Day
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Committed Couple Doing First
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Carry Everywhere First Me
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

American Food Hot Like
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Alive Back Became Childhood
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Any Committee Determined Flame
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Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

Am Best Coolest Dad
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I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

Bunch Conformist Get Getting
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In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Divorce Each Equitable Fifty
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Beautiful woman nah bad oooo. Them no dey talk truth

Beautiful women Bad Talk truth
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Exactly Life Looking Mirror
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My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.

Along Always Arts Bad
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

Badly Beginning Chest Chin
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Ahead Attention Both Career
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You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

Confront Destroy Fall Fear
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For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

After Awful Because Candy
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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Before Computer Going Grad
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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Central Contemporary Describe Facts
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

Election Politicians Actors Power
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My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

Again Children Creative Creative Process
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I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

Anything Camper Floor Give
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When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.

Doing Ever Get Going
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One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.
Bicycle Day Front Neighborhood
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Between Big Books Components
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One day soon, they will write about Us.

Soon One day Write About us
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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Choose Determine Itself Never
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Them no Dey look another person fish go soak garri o, the person fit change him mind say him wan use him fish make stew.

Dey Person Garri Change
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

About Binary Book Character
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Religion and tribalism are the first two to arrive at the meeting when Nigerians gather. There is nothing more divisive than them. Imagine both in one room and To make matters worse, they both want to chair the meeting. Chaos!

Religion Tribalism Nigerian Divisive
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I don’t care how beautiful/handsome you look, if your personality sucks, you are damn right UGLY.

Personality Beautiful Handsome Ugly
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The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.
Arguments Change Person Mind
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Focus on your generational blessings, We pay too much attention on what they call generational curses. We spend too much energy on generational curses in African.

Focus Blessing Curse Energy
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Around Does Fertilizer Good
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Envy Heart Human Passion
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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Certainly Feel Going Hands
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

About Chooses Dear Duty
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Abuse Always Another Anything
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I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

About China Delhi Doing
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My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

Amazing Because Could Goal
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When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

Any Artist Aunts Business
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Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

Anger Ask Before Business
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A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Bumper Contest End Good
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With me being an artist that took over a decade to get on, there's so many different things that I have in common with artists that's struggling to get on.

Artist Artists Being Common
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When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

About Across Been Bothering
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Also Anything Ask Change
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