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If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

Nas
Truth Grow Youth Told
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I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished.

Beautiful Divorce Escrow Compulsive
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My grandfather once told me; the soul of business is not making money but making people happy.

Soul Happy Told Not
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My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

Drink Mirror Front Watch
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Independent Person Own Lady
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Christianity Valuable Thing Whole
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I told myself repeatedly, 'One day you will be famous.
Day Famous Myself One Day
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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

First First One Life Like
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This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Life Virtue Honour Poor
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Who were you before the world told you what you were not?

World What You Who
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Agony Story Inside Greater
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Total Everything Heard Seen
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I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn’t the truth; it’s what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Afraid Truth Order Pain
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Allow Another Dream Everybody
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Asked He Never Truth
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Dismiss Insults Soul Which
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Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

Country Idiocy Deal People
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

Encourage Life People Told
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It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

Happen First Instant But
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True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

True Literature More Than
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Doctor Told Stop Having
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Sometimes Television Storyline Told
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Always Children Express Invariably
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Detail Happened How How Many Times
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Arrived Because Been Day
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I have had it all over the years, being told I'm not good enough. So whenever the chance comes I always try and prove I should be starting.

Always Being Chance Enough
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

About Events Happened History
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I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Army Basketball Because Being
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Applied Clerk Doctor Get
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

Great Great Stories Just Part
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Noticed Often Original Originality
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Ever Fear Felt Grief
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Am America Become Book
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When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.

Been Financial I Think People
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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Because Lost Ourselves Told
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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

Chart Doing Feel Fill
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You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

Always Flowers God Grow
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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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The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

Accepted Action Against Alternative
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

Because Early Go I Love
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Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Class Everything Message Rich
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I told workers, no governor or public office holder can steal without the cooperation of a civil worker.

Public Civil Holder Steal
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
Times Truth
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The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

Arab Because Billions Dollars
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No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

Water Whites Day Drink
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Being Central Dead Enjoy
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People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

People Always Tell You
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Accounts Afraid Allowed Asked
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