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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Expecting World Treat Fairly
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I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.

Exists Fashion I Think Reason
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My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

Dad Engineer He Immigrant
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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Above Any Anything Anything Else
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I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

Available Because Becomes Done
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

Actor Behind I Can Job
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The Nigerian Political elites are not immune from death but are stubbornly immune from any lessons or message it may try to communicate. Waste not your time pointing to the corpses of one of your own or their own; they can only pause for the dirge but not be guided by it.

Nigerian Elites Political Immune
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Death only takes out power and temporarily pauses its venom, but doesn’t teach its surviving troupe in custody of its reserved fangs, any lesson about its transience or ephemerality.

Power Venom Death Teach
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Music is very wide and there is no reason to limit ourselves to just a part of it.

Music Wide Reason Limit
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Pain me say no be me write Brymo's Ozymandias. Be like I dey sleep when the angel dey look for who to give the song to.

Pain Sleep Angel Give
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn’t get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you must do something about it.

Focus Future Optimist Right
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I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

Any Attention Because Being
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The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

Acting Actress Became Because
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Finally Get No Reason Paid
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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

About Artists Beginning Better
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But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

About Any Being Ever
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I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

Championships Going Out Playing
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Mothers Sons Grow President
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Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

Not Unlike Country History
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

Album Amplified Breathe Came
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

About Average Average Person Come
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

Agenda Anyone Campaign Clear
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

Believe Delivering Example Fashion
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Essence Followed Independently Instinct
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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Replace Hand Never Helping
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A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

Man Human Consequences Obstacles
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Ready Reason Man Spend
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Highest Art Religious Greatest
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Behind Comparison Front Inside
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Alone Even However Labors
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Been Better Born Destruction
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You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never.

Able Achieve Actress Almost
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Another Key Lessons Life
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Because Betrayed Courage Every
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Flowers Fragrance Spread Direction
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Person Honest Straight Trees
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Books Useful Stupid Person
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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Snake Poisonous Pretend Venomous
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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Education Friend Person Respected
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Beautiful Calculation Everything Noble
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

Clearly Even Old Person
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

Been Being Cultures Designers
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I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

Actually Business Dreams Feel
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I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

Family Feeling Give Great
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Beyond Literature Men Minded
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I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

Only Record Relate Some
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I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

Love Songs Money Success
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Given Lessons Taken
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Anything Excess Exciting Me
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

About Artist Beyond Excess
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