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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

Church Entertainment Expression Growing
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I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

Afford Because Fight Game
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Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Being Definitely Fast Grow
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If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.
Great GreatOpportunity Involved Itself
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But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

About Any Being Ever
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I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

City Grow GrowUp Household
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I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

Aggressiveness Court Get Hoop
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I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

Am Anybody Basketball Because
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Mothers Sons Grow President
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Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

Not Unlike Country History
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Nations Wishes Well Price
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When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me.

When Originally Came To
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Power Leads Arrogance Poetry
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When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.

Active Anything Because Doing
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It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Always Growing GrowingUp Struggle
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Being Being Pregnant Hazard Pregnant
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

Coach Excellent Football Football Team
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

After Circle Five Four
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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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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Replace Careful End Always
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Neck Around Time Ankle
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There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Courts Law Enforce Jails
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Never give in and never give up.
Give Never
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Bears Depends Important Life
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Quality Revolutions Go Lines
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Policy Rest Philosophical Opinion
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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Never Litigation Man Scarcely
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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

I Pass Life Preventing
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Time Public Man Best
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Folks Happy Minds
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Angry Every Give Mind
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

People Detail Private Life
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Appetite Both Change Food
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Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.

Acting Egos Good Hazard
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The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'

Around Believe Blessed Cannot
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Afford Blessings Friends Old
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Books Useful Stupid Person
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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Reveal Thought Wise Council
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Earth Supported Power Truth
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Upright Dealing Forest Straight
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I promise to kiss you before you wake up
Kiss you Wake up Promise You
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Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Any Aware Brought Hundred
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I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.

Before Buy Came Cosmetics
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I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

Exactly Old Family Kitchen
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When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

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Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

Actor Any Beautiful Care
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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Apparent Being Down Ever
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I'm trying to climb up both walls at once

Trying Climb Walls Once
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Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

Imagine Walking Trip Care
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I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

Wish People Young Respect
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