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All I ever wanted to be was happy.

I Wanted Happy
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I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower

Courage People Strength Belief
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If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education

People Need Education Invest
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Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.

Nothing Changes Same Before
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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Crazy Young Passions Moment
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In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Music Chamber Listened Audience
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Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.

Envy Soul Pleasures Life
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I’ve never been good at giving advice. The only advice I ever gave people was to find something that you are passionate about. But I hate giving advice, because, who am I? I’m just a girl

Good Advice People Passionate
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It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

Turning point Talent Contribute
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

She Learning Love Moments
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It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

Waste Time People Honest
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I want my daughters to know anything is possible for them. I want them to dream bigger than I did when I was little.

My daughters Know everything Is possible Dream bigger
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Our prison system was built to exploit and dehumanize so that corporations can profit.

Prison system Was built To exploit Dehumanize
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The police have never kept me safe.They beat the crap out of me when I was 11 years old. They've harassed me and brutalized me for most of my life.

The police Never kept Me safe Harassed me
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All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.

Wanted Famous Found Special
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Children Profession Waste Time
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Man Born Free Chains
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If fear was a weapon, religion would be it's bullet.

If fear A weapon Religion It's bullet
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I am at a point in my life where I am really really conflicted. Trying to balance what I was told while growing up to what I am seeing in reality now I am grown.

My life Really conflicted To balance Was told
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Being myself was the best decision I ever made.

Being myself Best decision Ever made
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If marriage was such a do or die affair, even God would be married, Jesus Christ would have been married. Argue with your creator.

If marriage Die affair Even God
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I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

Realised Stopping Living Life
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Nature was beautiful, even in her tears

Nature Beautiful Tears
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I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

Raised Christian Yourself God
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The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country

Idea Religion Politics Devil
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We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

Success Money Contributed Community
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My family was as absolute as the work.Family was first always.

Family Absolute Work First
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I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.

Hunger Desire Successful Way
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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Great things Happen Jesus Born
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

I Born Slum
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The empowerment of women was a cause that was dear to the Queen.

The empowerment Women A cause The queen
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One advantage created by Covid19, was for developing economies to re imagine their future.

One advantage Created by Developing economies Re imagine
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I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

Decided Going Fly Stay up
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Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

Remember Journey Together Nowhere
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learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.

Learning Rediscovery Knowledge Remembering
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You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can't do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn't say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I'm going to be loyal to my friend because he's my friend.

Friend Loyalty Live Right
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I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.

Set Standards High Harsher
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I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

Lessons Fail Want Love
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We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Problems Families Love
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Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

Gain Life Fall apart Heart
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Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

Sudden Wealth Great Bereavement
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Meeting wey money go show them no dey waste time.

Meeting Wey money Go show Waste time
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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

Foundation Beliefs Non-violence
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Countering the false, long-held belief of Christianity being a "white man's religion" shoved down on Africans when in reality, Christianity was in Africa long before it reached the UK and many European countries.

Countering The false Long held belief Christianity being
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My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

Parent Life Difficult Work
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My childhood dream was to live and work in Africa. I’m living my dream.

Childhood dream To live Work
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And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

Books Health Habits Food
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I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward.

Dwell Change Waste Angry
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If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

Lose Walk away Feel Nothing
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Please don’t waste your precious life being too cool to work hard, coolness doesn’t pay bills, doesn’t help you achieve your dreams and it certainly won’t make you a legend.

Precious life Too cool Work hard Coolness
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