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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Access Always Boxes Century
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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Answer Did Gave Glimpse
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Because Effect Great Had
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I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Started Being Really Proud
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When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road.

When Started There Was
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Where I am from, people are into designer brands, but not, like, the cool ones, just like any designer brand, and I wasn't that type.

Am Any Brand Brands
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

Proud Heavy Fast Enough
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

Hipsterism Codes Social Originality
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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Around Enjoy Envy Eyes
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I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me.

About College Knew Me
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Example Father Had Just
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I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

About Best BestWork Day
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I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

Day Get Growing GrowingUp
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

Because Believed Desperate Everything
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

All-Around Anyone Anyone Else Around
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

Actually Australia Because Caught
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I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

Always Been Believed Even
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

Also Before Biggest Came
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

Any Became Because Go
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

Always Craft Equipped Felt
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Always Before Brighter Just
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Adam Apple Eating Got
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
About Ambitious Any IWish
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Because Detailed English EnglishTeacher
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

Child Kind Life Taught
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I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Always Anybody Anywhere Difficult
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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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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Collar Brother Came Dude
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
Bad Never School Bookworm
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Baseball Cemetery Either
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

Anything Big Big Mouth Creative
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I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Am Whatever Say Am
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Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

Attack Been Being Better
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I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day - even my television wasn't working!

All Day Been Brooklyn Day
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I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music.

Thought Had Everything Going
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

Beauty Fashion Fashion Industry Industry
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I wasn't good at school.

Good School Wasn't
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.

Away Certain Disaster Knew
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I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

Blocking Business Came Casino
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I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

Captain Team Won Champions-league
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I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

Black Got Humor Hyper
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A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.

Brilliant People Young Entrepreneur
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

Any Freight Go Looking
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I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

Act Back Being Cringe
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People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

Again Alternative Because Come
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

About Construction Creating Father
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Cheeks Day Down Enough
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Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Barely Controlled Diseases How
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I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

Being Gone Had IRemember
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