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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Album Allowed Got Guy
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Across Chords Few Place
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I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Apart Big Important Instance
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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

Albums Been Done Fact
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All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

About Art Does Focused
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“Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.”

LIfe Growing Potential Benefit
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“Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.”

Achievement Top Remaining Spectacular
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Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
Christ Dead Flesh God
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It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you – always.

Ability Triumph Always Matter
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Cristiano's numbers are amazing, indisputable.

Amazing Numbers
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“Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.”

While. Stumble About Judging
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

Person Dumb Cute Power
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“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.”

Never Money Happy End
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

About Cares Famous Go
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The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

Among Art Country Endearing
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“Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”

Give Maximum Potential Means
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Behavior Had Human Make
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And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become … all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings.

Human Animal Race Cruel
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His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

Light Mouth Gash Human
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

Documentaries DVD Extra Footage
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I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Things Own Like Inanimate
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Umm... my favourite Wizkid tune of all time would be 'Don't Dull' 'cos I recorded the track in, like, 5 minutes. The beat was ready, we went into the studio and freestyled, and it was ready. The song became really, really big, so I think 'Don't Dull' is still my favourite.

Beat Became Big Dull
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I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

Anybody Between Borders Broke
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It is more important to secure human lives than to secure an economy.

Important Secure Human Lives
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Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Album Always Bought Experience
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I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Albums Always Between Come
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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Actually Artists Controversy Deal
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All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Kill Adultery Commandments Commit
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For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Exalted Everyone Humble Himself
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
Animal Funnier Human Human Animal
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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

People Phosphorized Untouched Instead
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Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Intimacy Beign Distance Horizon
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Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Holds Surprise Hearts Friends
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I like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

Prunes Olive Hummus Food
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Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.

Belief Tough Outwards Joy
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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

Laziness Breeds Humors Blood
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Medium Matter Giving Art
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I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Highway Stumps Year Wonder
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Heartbreak Definitely Deeper Sensibility
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We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.

Universe Create Artist Poet
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I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Prone Error Humans Upgrade
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

August Messanger Actor Misery
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

Europe Performing Have Festival
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To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

Every Number Clippers Apply
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We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

Summer's Ghost Warm September
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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Cowardice Expression Stupidity
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Activity Cast Distress Emotions
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Alter Altering Attitudes Discovery
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