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I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

About Blow Brain Computer
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Corruption will have no place and the corrupt will not be appointed into my administration.

Place Appointed Corrupt Will
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Brought Cereal Controversial Family
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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

Able Anything Army Been
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We shall strongly battle another form of evil that is even worse than terrorism – the evil of corruption.

Evil Worse Battle Form
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: they offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

Twist Minds Money Promise
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Bible Gave Hours I Think
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I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Always Get Go Guard
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Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

Always Barbados Choreographer Culture
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When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.

Actually Am Back Caught
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

Got Information Look Much
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We have to upgrade our dilapidated physical infrastructure. No single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation. It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less.

Power Shame Economy Single
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Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.
Really What Try Instill
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Because Build Cannot Every
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I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you're both musicians.

Dated Couple Guys Were
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I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

Love Dressing Up Doing
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Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

About Drawing Few Governments
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I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
Never Been More Nervous
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Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

Amount Bed Believed Best
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Don’t ever wrestle with a pig..you both will end up dirty but the pig will enjoy it.

Enjoy Dirty End Both
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

After Bed Catalogue Description
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Carry Does Every Freedom
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Leadership comes from actions you take, not the position you occupy. Being the boss does not necessarily make you the leader

Leader Actions You Position
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Children Cracks Fill Flowers
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Fame Fickle Food Plate
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The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

Day Now Perfect Up
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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Because Died Dying Father
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God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Bush Charms Else Fear
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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

About Alice Being Believing
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Had Hurry Mother Never
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Again Book Editing Few
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Broken Hopes Lest Life
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I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Adjectives Advances Being Felt
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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Accept Advice Allow Democratic
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Begin Change Disappearing History
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Yesterday might be a ridicule, today an obstacle, but tomorrow is a miracle. Don't give up.

Miracle Give Today Obstacle
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A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
About Before Give Going
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Actor Because Day Fleeting
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Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

Day Direction Follow Path
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Class Country Discover High
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Afterwards Both Cleaning Exhaustion
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I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Always Been Brought Chemistry
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

Certainly Going Look People
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Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.

AnalytComing Early Had How
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Children Curiosity Easily Get
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Accept After Cupboard Get
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It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Being Concert Did Eye
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These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

About Again Artists Cannot
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In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

Believing Difficult Difficult Times Growing
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Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Angry Choose Day Doing
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