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I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

Never Wanted Stage Musical
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The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Philosophy High minded Means Love
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I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.

Brothers Brothers And Sisters Grew House
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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Again Back Down Emotions
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I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Age Be A Man Had Handling
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So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'

About Does Dude Go
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A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

About Because Been Classical
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Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

About Because Eight Helps
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Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Actually Beautiful Because Cello
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

Future Focus Attempt Sounds
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I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

Always Being Dream Believed
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For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

Actor Around Form Major
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

Service Play Better Harder
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.

Discovered Articulate Hard Quick
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My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Abraham Abraham Lincoln Carry Certain
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

Play Profile Radio Artist
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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

Playthings Our fear Physical pain
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I spent a huge part of Saturday mornings as a child dancing and singing to Majek Fashek’s albums played by my dad....records from his turntable. Such beautiful memories...Rest In Power Majek Fashek. No wonder it’s raining...

Spent Huge part Child dancing Singing
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Life Game Cards Dealt you
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You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

Can tell Person Playlist
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Are you going to be a grandfather who plays Draft (nsolo) or a grandpa who plays Golf? A wise chap from the Eastern Province just reminded me that the work you are putting in today is what will determine your answer.

Grandfather A wise Work Golf
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

Horse Beauty Tire Displays himself
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…We must all collectively commit to playing our own individual roles in the defence of Nigeria’s democracy.
Collectively commit Playing Individual roles Democracy
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You cannot fight the press, you cannot fight the media. They are the ones that will tell people what is going on, so I cannot fight the media. They said I’m crazy, I use cocaine. Well, I still use cocaine. I dey blow my nose, I dey smoke my Igbo. As I speak to you, I have cocaine in my pocket and in my house. I still dey use am. I can’t stop. How will you play music with a ‘normal eye’? You can’t be a good musician playing without getting high. Pastors dem dey high too. The truth is that you can’t be on the human level and give the message. The humans are looking up to you, so you must be superhuman to live up to their expectations.

Fight Media Cocaine Human level
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…Just keep being good to your fellow humans. Pray, work hard, and play hard.

Keep Being good Fellow human Pray
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Don’t play second fiddle. Don’t be a sidekick. It’s better to be alone and find the one who treats you as a priority than stay where you are an option.

Second fiddle Sidekick Be alone Treats you
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People will lie to you, do you dirty, cheat on you, ignore you until they feel like talking to you, then have the audacity to play the victim and act like you’re the bad person when you stop being nice to them.

People Lie Dirty Cheat
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One thing when I started playing in the league, I saw that a lot of guys are friendly. It's OK to be friendly, especially off the court. But on the court, I want to dominate.

Started playing League Friendly Dominate
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Every time, the mindset I get when I get on the floor is that I'm the best player on the floor.

Every time Mindset Floor Best player
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I’d rather sell groundnuts in my village than to play for a pathetic team like Chelsea.

Sell groundnuts My village Play.pathetic team
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In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

Good organization Best player World Best team
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I’ve worked hard and dreamed, and that helped me become one of the best players in the world.

Worked hard Dreamed Helped me Best player
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419 no be thief, it's just a game Everybody dey play em

419 Thief Everybody Dey
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I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

Afraid Play My age An ingenue
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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Play golf Living Getting paid Doing
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Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Force Your kids Sports Play golf
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The peoples of Nigeria must be united to enable this country to play a full part in shaping the destiny of mankind.

Nigeria United Destiny Mankind
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

What part Take upon Play The best
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

I have Ever loved Cool baptisms Silent water
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Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Theater Story telling Feel entitled Playwright
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Life Piano Get out Depends on
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My tenure is the first time a sitting Governor will not play tribalism or religious sentiment. And I’m carrying everybody along.

My tenure First time Play tribalism Religious sentiment
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Consistently, you have proven to be dedicated, diligent, meticulous, conscientious, and a good team player. You are highly appreciated for these reasons and many more.

Have proven Dedicated Diligent Meticulous
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Oh I see. Well as an actor I enjoy every aspect of acting. I’m versatile hence every role is played with the same level of professionalism like the next.

As actor Enjoy Every aspect Versatile
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The youth play integral role in Nation building. Nigeria is a country that is blessed with abundant talents that excel all over the world.

Youth play Integral role Nation building A country
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Champion Keep playing Get it Right
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Sports Teaches you Character Play
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I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

Play golf Shoot My age Weight instead
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We remember and celebrate even in death our late ‘gangling’ Rasheed Yekini who passed away 8 years ago today. Yekini was in a class of his own: brilliant and consummate ball player; passionate about the game and humane.Undoubtedly one of our best talents of all time.

Remember Celebrate Death Consummate
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I just don’t understand extra lessons for our kids, It is either that they are not taught properly or there is an element of corruption! In our time most schools closed by 1pm. We had time to rest, play, run errands for parents, read, go to Qur’anic school/Bible study and bond.

Understand Extra lessons Our kids Taught properly
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