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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

Africa Because Born Brought
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I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

Conversation Did Dinner Grow
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My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'

Ambition Become Davis Day
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The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.

Care Child Child Care Day
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b

Books Could Court Ghetto
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New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.

Creativity Embody Experience Innovation
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Accident Belief Born Find
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There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

There Was Point When
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Afterlife Contradiction Here Hoped
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To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture--a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.

Hudson-taylor-s-spiritual-secret
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Angry Bad Beginning Created
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

Been Cup Different Game
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There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.

Always Dinner There Load
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

Really Nervous Intimidated Whole
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I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

Definitely Was Living Fast
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I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.

Was Amazed Support That
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

Was Scapegoat Media Put
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I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.

Was Modelling Started End
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At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.

Career Feeling Fighting Game
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Thought Was Quite Vain
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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

Started Going Back Forth
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

Kind Of Lost Interest
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For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.

About Brought Came Carry
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If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

Also Beauty Creativity Editor
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I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

Tried Get Focused Other
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Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

Calvin Was Very Clever
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I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Been Chill Chill Out Even
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying

Sudden All Get Attention
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I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Able Always Break Ever
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My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.

About Adamant Asking Child
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I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

Was Never Anorexic So
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I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Would Have Wanted Rockstar
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

Kind Was Of Boring
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When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Big Big Thing Child Control
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My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.
Asking Child Clothes Clothing
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I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'

Remember Taking Makeup Off
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.

Fed Get Lunch Me
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If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.
Everything Grow Learn Never
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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Army Chief Commander First
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We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

April Birthday Birthdays Born
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I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

Being Child Deeper Destiny
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Down Ever Fence Know
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Born-again Humbles Life Mermaid
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When I was young I lost everything.

Everything Was Lost Young
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Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
Elementary Elementary School Graduated Married
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I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

About Am Baby Casting
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I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families.

Am Families Fight Hardworking
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I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

Better Better Off Click Everybody
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It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.

About Back Go Great
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America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

America Big Big Guy Class
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