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I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Best Rest Sometimes Think
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Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

Actually Deep Mind Sometimes
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Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

Clothes Complain Hear Loud
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Down Driven Executive Follow
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Certain Emotion Intent Myself
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I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

Among Color Feel Folks
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Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

Creativity Decided Group Mix
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It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Arms Certain Close Immediately
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I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

Arms Close Immediately Round
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Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'

Advice Asked Business Jobs
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

Art Balance Business Crazy
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I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

Always Different Kind Little
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

Dawn World Got Heart
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After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

After Brushing Day Feels
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Being Courage Deeply Gives
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I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.
Emotional Help Person Sometimes
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If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Choice Everybody Father Had
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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Along Anxious Chill Control
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If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
Meaningful Say Something Want
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I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

Any Draw Gotta Guys
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Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that's never been me.

All Day Been Maybe Me
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If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Being Competitor Doing More
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

About Because Believe Better
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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Creative Else Energy Interface
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Acting Always Being Fulfilled
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Almost Create Disadvantage Every
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No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

About Ask Change Forget
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

Actor Been Boy Career
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I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.

Also Always Anything Change
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I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about people that do stand-up.

About Comedians Cross I Think
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I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

Basically Been Done Films
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I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.

Anything Deep Deep Love Destroy
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I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.

Actor Dream Every I Think
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Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.

Bad Care Certainly Don't Care
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Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

American American Culture Culture Fence
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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

First First Time How Learn
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I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

Awards Because Dressed Even
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Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Against Anybody Force Going
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.

About America Being Best
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I'm in a very comfortable place, and some of that comes from the shackles of not having to be what people want you to be.

Comfortable Having People Place
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It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups.

About Any Being Black
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A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

Affect Circumstances Conversation Culture
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In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning.

Connection Deeper Emotional Meaning
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It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

Bit Depends Difficult Grass
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Actor Audience Author Business
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This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

About Been Books Cases
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Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

Added Attack Been Center
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Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

Alive Cosmos Doing Feedback
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For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.
About Me Personal Something
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But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

About Art Art Work Ask
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