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All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

Human Stupid Forgiven Right
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With Heaven’s aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you.

Empire Heaven Aid Conquered
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When it was wet, we bore the wet together, when it was cold, we bore the cold together.
Wet Bore Cold Together
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Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

After Back Before Car
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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

After Had Him Image
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My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

Bloody Chair Class Class Clown
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

More MyOwn Own Sensibility
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When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story.

Album Been Earned First
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I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even Christmas Eve. I'm just used to working on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating it afterward.

Afterwards Birthday Celebrating Christmas
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I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.

Always Because Born Bronx
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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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In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record 'Double Vision' in English.

Challenging Different Double English
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At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

Bronx Could Fund Make
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Each wasted second is a second wasted.
Wasted Second Each
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You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.
Brainwashed Believing Ugly
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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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Put all you are into whatever you do. Anything less is a waste of your time

Waste Time Less All
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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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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Used Think Religion Just
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

After Poisonous Bible Was
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My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

Always Am Anymore Because
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“The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”
Early Church Married Poverty
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My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Becoming Big BigBreak Break
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My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

Absolutely Because Classes Cold
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My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

Father Love Death Field
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You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Limitations Mine Know Way
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I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.

Before Dancer Never Shake
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Days Prolong Shall Them
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
Caused Men Short Trouble
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Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

Above Among Another Day
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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Beauty Brilliance Girl Her
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I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Actor Alternative Anything Anything Else
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Able Acting Actor Director
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I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

About Because Chose Community
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

Been Clear Just Make
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I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

Been Camera Commercials Doing
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

Amount Business Creates Film
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Always Architectural Art Arts
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

Box Different Everybody Get
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I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.

All-Star Basketball Die Game
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

Call City Come Cop
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I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

Christmas Get How I Remember
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I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.

Because Dyslexia Dyslexic Going
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

Central Did Enough Grew
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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Able Always Am Believed
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

Army Born British Enlisted
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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

About Anybody Art Art Form
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Audio Cinema Familiar Future
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

Ambitious Calls Cause Device
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