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I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.

Album Ever Every Existed
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Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

Catch Doing Had Interviews
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I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

Basketball Corner Dogs Eating
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Alone Brings Courage Energies
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I'm excited to be launching D'Leon Records to support other young talent in their development. I have been very fortunate to have been able to break through and succeed in this tough industry, and this is one of my ways of giving back.

Able Back Been Break
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Attained Bourgeois Democracy Dream
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My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

Also America Community Double
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Sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

Sanctification Dependent Human Attitude
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Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Devil Here His Ignorance
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Am I Am Man Needed
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I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Always Believe End I Believe
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Art Avoid Being Close
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

AllNations Birth Bound Decadence
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Absolute Aims Conception Doctrine
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A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
Lady Gentleman Dance Supper
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Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.

Consideration Right Feelings Public
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Life is about the ride, not the vehicle you show up in.
Life Ride Vehicle Show up
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Any of us can find an excuse to be distracted, challenge yourself to come up with more excuses to be present.

Distracted Excuse Present Challenge yourself
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Attached Depends Happiness Love
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If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainier every day since.

Marriage Deciding Love Brainier
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Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

Burden False Make Horrible
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Let them see you sweat, hurt, fall, fail, cry, bleed, crack, falter, suffer, struggle, persist, rise, fight, grow, improve, gain, triumph, and above all let them see your joy. But NEVER let them see you give up.

Sweat Fail Fall Struggle
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When called upon, do your best. That's all anyone can ask.

Best Anyone Ask
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You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

Album Beat Get Know
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It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Album Artwork Behind Collaborating
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I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Being BeingNice Changed Easier
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Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

Away Belong Couple Day
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.
Everybody Fighting Grow GrowUp
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Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

Dramatic Enough Everyone Feel
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I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

Art Breath Come Equilibrium
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The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

Any Being Business Ends
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In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

Almost Chosen Like Make
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
Downfall Guidance His Learn
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

Else Enough Get Nobody
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Always Baptist Growing Hood
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I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

Against Drinking Eating Horrible
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Wats Elections Both Are
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Kills You To Watch
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

When You Pick Up
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Grew Up Aware All
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Suppose That My Central
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Home Growing Up Weren't
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file.

Morning Begins With Trying
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

For Me Writing Always
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Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.

Adjustment Bed Earlier Going
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I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

Adds Certain CertainThings Dyslexia
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“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”

God Book Days Believe
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“The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.”

Passion Fashion Pathetic Superficial
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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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“Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.”

Someday Pick book Bible Shame
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