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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

Against Anything Being Business
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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Against Commission Crime Crimes
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Dollar God His Man
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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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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

Baseball Bills Challenge Describing
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We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.”
Live Lives Christ Coming
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I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Always Wished For This
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My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

My Thing This Sick
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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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There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

There Was A While
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

Analysis Deeply Dreams Find
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Career Definite Filling Misty
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Beautifully Become Book Coming
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Died Service Nation Proud
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Term Slight Useful Natural
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Once you attain business success, proposals will come. This will broaden your business horizon and give you new ideas and opportunities.

Business Success Proposals Ideas
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What a man really need in life is to break the barriers of limitations and achieve his dreams. With this, you can ride the storms of life without losing your head.

Life Barriers Limitations Dreams
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What keeps me going is that this I all there is. I am a comedian,What keeps me going is that this I all there is. I am a comedian, and this is what I do. It's like telling a fish to stop swimming. It'll die. and this is what I do. It's like telling a fish to stop swimming. It'll die.

Keeps Going Comedian Fish
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This morning you woke up. Did you give thanks? Be thankful.
Morning Woke Give thanks Thankful
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Change doesn’t have to be hard, and healing doesn’t have to hurt. Surely by now you know that everything happens for a reason. There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Change Hard Healing Hurt
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Awards are great...but never the validation for this job. Celebrate the winners and get them next time.

Awards Great Never Validation
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“Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.”
Nature Trees Deep Roots
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As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

Buildings Down Drive Get
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What keeps me going is that this I all there is. I am a comedian, and this is what I do. It's like telling a fish to stop swimming. It'll die.

Am Comedian Die Fish
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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Chains Else Enslavement Extension
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I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!

Ambition Arm Because Becoming
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

Action Character Character Development Development
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Creative Documentation Endless Eve
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Looser Interesting Adult Losers
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I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

Always Had Idea Ladder
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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

About Did Extraordinary Extraordinary Things
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In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

Circumstance Faced Focus Focus Groups
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Is this lockdown only for the poor? It’s unfortunate for someone to go against the lockdown rules of the government at this time.

Lockdown Poor Rules Government
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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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Each new day is a blessing, not a guarantee. Stay humble and remember your place in this universe
New day Blessing Guarantee Universe
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America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

America Haunted Apparition Steeped
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

Abroad Barack Barack Obama Common
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All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

African Dispora Feel There
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People thought 'Classic Man' was processed. But then they realized, 'Oh, this guy actually is that man, and he actually dresses like that.'

People Thought Classic Man
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My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

My Father Raised Me
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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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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Anxious Cannot Checking Contain
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Any Attempt Brutal Comprehensible
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

Announce Around Five Get
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I am part of this country that will keep speaking the obvious ways life can be made better for us all.

Country Keep Speaking Life
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Beautiful Beauty Come Considered
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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Wish Join Way March
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Men Fairness Only Power
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

People Self-possession Clouds Nation
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