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I've been trying to do this music stuff and work it out for so long... I was like, 'Let's do it for ourselves.' All these songs, we've travelled the world - no record label, nothing. We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.

Appreciated Been Did Just
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I was working so hard at music and trying to do this whole 'industry' thing and realised that it wasn't for me.

Hard Industry Me Music
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Am Away Begun Entrusted
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Church Event Moon Photograph
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Against Asked Bite Religion
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Admit Always Fruitful Had
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Belittle Created Mystery Something
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Before Dad Dream His
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

As Far As Caught Else Everyone
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It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs

Was Strike Against That
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

Bunch Crying Executives Front
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If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

Was The Fan Music
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I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Really Appreciate The Moments
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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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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Civilization First Founder Human
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Any Before Civilization Gift
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The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Became Denied Insult Life
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Where id was, there ego shall be.

Ego ID Shall Where
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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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For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

Air Asthma Diagnosed Enough
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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

Along Big Circle Definitely
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

Been Bone Broken Could
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

Did First First Thing I Think
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

Actually Departments Drama Enough
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

Business Come Comedy Did
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Always Days Falls Great
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We took such a beating on Bofors. As far as I know, no one from my government was involved.

Beating Far Government Involved
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I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

Any Crossed Even Go
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Being the youngest, I was a bit of a mama's boy. I was really protected as I grew up, almost like I was in a bubble.
Almost Being Bit Boy
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Dad always enjoyed sports, and he decided to join a Guadalajara gym to learn how to box. What he didn't realize was that they didn't teach boxing at that particular gym - they taught 'lucha libre.'

Always Box Boxing Dad
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As I grew up, Dad was more involved in training than promoting. He brought the same style to his training that he did to being a father - strong and strict.

Being Brought Dad Did
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Wrestling just comes naturally to me. It wasn't like there was this moment where I said, 'This is what I'm going to do.' It's just what I did. It was my life.

Did Going Just Life
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When I started wrestling, I hounded my dad to teach me. Eventually, he gave in, but he was careful to instill in me a respect for other wrestlers. He wanted to be sure I wasn't going to hurt anyone.

Anyone Careful Dad Eventually
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In my freshman year of high school, I don't think I had a single date. I was really shy, really timid and quiet. I had my first real date when I was a sophomore, with a girl from church.

Church Date First Freshman
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My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

Dad Was Never Married
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On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

Think Like Man Best
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I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'

Known Ben Stiller A
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The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

Beatles Biggest Break Career
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After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

After Bit Britain Did
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I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.
Bad Beatles Care Fed
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When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Bet Car Cheap Ford
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To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

Admission Better Buy Computer
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

Because I Can Lennon McCartney
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I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once,and it cost me a huge opportunity.

Always Am Ask Because
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In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Contribution Heard Little Make
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I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?

Business College Connected Family
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Probably the hardest question I get asked is, 'How do I choose between passion and practicality?' I can't answer that. I had to do both. I was passionate about pursuing a career in financial services. But I was also passionate about feeding my child.

Between Both Career Child
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