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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott
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Education
Had
Men
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
Adele
Just
Want
Music
People
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
Irwin Shaw
People
Light
Dark
Quickly
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
Henry Rollins
Theory
Slayed
Shot
Poodles
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
Buchi Emecheta
Africa
Background
Cultural
Highlight
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To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.
Henry Rollins
Company
Orphanage
Donate
Powerful
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Over
First
Calm
Breathe
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I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.
Henry Rollins
Interrupt
Professional
Wrestler
Jump
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If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.
Henry Rollins
Around
Inherent
Cynicism
Cry
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My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Own
Better
Gender
Definition
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Will Rogers
About
Day
Eight
Newspaper
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Whatever is not working in your life is not God’s fault. It is your knowledge that is inadequate. You need your own license of knowledge to walk in total freedom on this earth.
David Oyedepo
Life
Fault
Earth
Freedom
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We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
Henry Rollins
People
Head
Dark
Peak
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I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.
Henry Rollins
Blown
War
Bogus
Occured
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With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
David Beckham
Biggest
Did
Football
Grown
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley
Our
Limitations
Success
Based
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
W. C. Fields
Elephants
Look
Own
Want
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
Henry Rollins
Group
Ground
Broken
Stopped
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As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.
Henry Rollins
Sorry
Missing
Analog
Playback
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The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.
Henry Rollins
Hours
Life
Slow
Down
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When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.
Henry Rollins
Material
Own
Dilutes
Mediocre
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Denis Waitley
Life
Movie
Eyes
Through
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.
Henry Rollins
Conversations
Distractions
Unwanted
Gravitate
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I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle. I make mistakes but learn from every one. And when it’s said and done, I bet this brother be a better one. If I upset you don’t stress; never forget that God isn’t finished with me yet.
Tupac Shakur
Control
Mistake
Drink
Better
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It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur
Win
Lose
Game
Board
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I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur
Leader
Born
Authority
Natural
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Until it happened, I really did believe that no Black person would ever shoot me. I believed that I didn’t have to fear my own community, You know, I was like I represent them. I’m their ambassador to the world, they will never do me wrong.
Tupac Shakur
Believe
Comminity
Represent
World
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I am known for comedy, so I want to produce a psychological thriller, something challenging.
Falz
Comedy
Produce
Thriller
Known
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If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.
T. B. Joshua
Fail
See
Power
People
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley
Desire
Listen
Children
Encourage
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Denis Waitley
Become
Break
Comfort
Comfort Zone
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Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley
About
Away
Dream
Enthusiastic
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Goodluck Jonathan
Bring
Defeated
Justice
Known
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I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Fashion
Love
Great
Express
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
Aspire
Bring
Business
Each
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
Ibrahim Babangida
Democracy
Development
Indeed
Land
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
Cannot
Consumed
Earned
Every
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Don’t let them drag you down by rumors, just go with what you believe in.
Michael Jordan
Rumor
Just
Believe
Drag
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Never allow the perception of others to play a substantial part in your own vision of yourself and your future.
Jim Ovia
Allow
Play
Future
Part
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All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we’re giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That’s one of the things that connects us as neighbors—in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.
Fred Rogers
Need
Help
Receiving
Valuable
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It is imperative to rely on one’s own instincts in taking stock of one’s own capabilities, and in evaluating a new business opportunity.
Jim Ovia
Stock
Rely
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Instincts
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If you constantly have to play ombudsman for your beloved, you’re in a co-dependent prison of your own making. People will keep doing what they can get away with.
Luvvie Ajayi
Play
Beloved
Prison
Away
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We have partnered with hospitals. We do check-ups. We talk to the parents - we educate them - and at the same time, we take the kids to other countries for operations. The goal of the foundation is to build our own cardiac hospitals in Africa, starting in Nigeria.
Nwankwo Kanu
Africa
Build
Countries
Educate
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A talented footballer comes over, his family depends on him, and if his agent or club don't treat him well, he might not succeed, and then he feels he's let everyone down. For years, African players have been exploited.
Nwankwo Kanu
African
Agent
Been
Club
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
Francesco Petrarch
Love
Crowning
Humanity
Grace
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Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.
Zakir Naik
Intelligent
Stole
Material
Desire
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
Francesco Petrarch
Born
Time
Own
Preferred
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino
Anyone
Art
Better
Crown
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I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
Fanny Fern
Convinced
Sit
Down
Nothing
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One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.
Og Mandino
Again
Back
Couple
Down
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