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When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story.

Album Been Earned First
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Century Fascism History Known
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Battle Even Folded Great
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

History Insane InsanePeople Mainly
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

There's Always Part Your
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“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”

Gospel Old Story Freshly
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Business Changing Days Getting
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

Anything Come Ever Me
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
Catalyst Every Love Love Story
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Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

Alone Before Believing Convinced
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Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Big BigPart Choose Different
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

America Behavior Capitalist Career
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Abstraction Beauty Believe Change
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Don't judge your unfinished story. Your story is still being told so, don’t judge it and give yourself unnecessary heartache.

Judge Story Heartache Unnecessary
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I would have loved to have heard a story like mine. I could have used it as an inspiration to get by.

Loved Heard Story Inspiration
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I'll take any story if it's good.

Any Good Story Take
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Alive Culture History Objects
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I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

Anybody Because Doing Great
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Because Came Come Deeply
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Across Feeling Gets Gift
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

Any Delivering Fact Harder
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We cannot change the history of the past.”
Cannot Change History Past
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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Easiest Effective Most Somebody
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

About Batting Get Give
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

Anything Interviewer Listener Natural
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I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

Great Great Thing Interested Interview
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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.

Big Grade Happen Happens
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

Dream Generally Hate Movies
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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

People Freedom Heroes Story
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It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

Voice Commands Story Ear
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When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

Share Story Empowering Heal
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken.

We Just Feel Like
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

History Repeat Itself You
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You can hate me for being a woman, you can hate me for being smart, you can hate me for being funny, but you hate me because I am doing something you could never do. End of story.

Am Because Being Being Funny
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Across Art Art Form Authentic
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My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

About Always Ambition Chaotic
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

About Deep Father Fear
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I'm very happy to have already been welcomed into the LFC family, I'm a part of history having won the Champions League and hopefully we keep making history.

Been Champions Champions League Family
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

1930s Almost Almost Nothing Early
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My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

Been Before Concept Context
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I realize this about life when people are somehow no longer part of your story, they imagine it will be a tragedy. Just keep going, your success will be right in their faces and there’ll be nothing they can do about it.

Life Story Tragedy Success
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

About Almost Always Best
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

Degree Expectations Life Like
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

History Relentless Present Past
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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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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Power Best Generation Mankind
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

History About Parts Story
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Story Part Work History
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Story Far Begin Surface
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