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In spite of the ups and downs, I kept going. In some quarters, things didn’t go well, but it didn’t matter since what I was doing was and is still making me happy.

Kept going Quarters Happy
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Appropriating technology in what you want to do, with the very limited resources available to you is exciting.
Appreciating technology Limited resources
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I always compete against myself. I’m very passionate about what is happening in Africa. I believe it can change. I believe we can get the right leaders on board. I believe that things can go well. I believe that my films will be reference points for the future building of Africa.

Compete Passionate Happening Believe
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Locate your dream, then light up your passion, let the light burn as you keep doing what is right that you believe in and trust in your efforts. I tell you, one day, your candle will light up the world and time will celebrate you.

Locate Dream Light up Passion
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You attract what is constantly on your mind, so think right.

You attract Your mind
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

Admit Extraordinary Creation World
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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

Longevity Avoiding worry Stress
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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

Getting old Shoelaces Wonder
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When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

I die Intend Take My music
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My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

Best advice Love A living
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Weed Plant Virtue Discovered
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I have for many years given practically the whole of my income for charitable purposes, except what is spent upon my family. Nearly all my money is invested in businesses in which I believe I can truly say the first thought of the welfare of the work people employed.

Many years Income Charitable purpose
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Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.

Filling A need Attitude Towards life
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I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

Agree Along Believe Came
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I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

About Buying Care Don't Care
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I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

Appeal Bad Bad Girl Because
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People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Always Apply Ask Because
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I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.

Change I Love Love Make
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Bug Buttons Death Going
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

Audience Idea Makes Me
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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Books Culture Essays Figure
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What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

About Affect Around Broader
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Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
Actually Everything How Learn
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As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

Child Individual Just Life
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Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage.
Advantage Competitive CompetitiveAdvantage Freedom
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

About Band Disagree Music
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When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

Did Either Enhanced Influence
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If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

Am Better Better Man Could
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About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

About Always Am Best
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What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

Brings Ego Enlightened First
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What you consistently hear has the capacity to manifest in your life. Therefore, take heed what you hear.

Capacity Life Heed Hear
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Don't settle for whatever life throws at you; develop your gifts and choose better path.
Settle Life Throws Choose
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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Being Dreams Life Revenge
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You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world.

Know What Heavyweight champ World
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If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.

Maintain Integrity Go wrong
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I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.

Upset Newspaper Realize Human being
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I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.
I know Experience Never Give up
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Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

Look Piano Black notes Figure out
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What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

Work Somebody Yourself
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Wait Just right Start Work
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

Born Fascist Following Great
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What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
American Audiences Awkward Captured
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The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

Critics Remembered Failed Understand
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Detail Discover Examining Level
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I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Doing Everybody Learned Look
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Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
Across Eventually Get Like
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Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Across Because Break Clash
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When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that.

Artists Caught Divert Down
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Before finding music, I didn't have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Aspirations Before Finding Had
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What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Anyway Communicate Communication Form
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