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I hate being up onstage with a microphone.
Being Hate Microphone Onstage
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Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Artistic Culture Earth Evolving
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When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.

Believe Bring Creativity Global
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I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

Always Been Breaking Come
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As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.

Culture Designer Interested Lifeline
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Collaboration is not a punchline... I only collaborate with the best in each category.

Best Category Collaborate Collaboration
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My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

Been Before Concept Context
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I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.

Cities Constantly Friends Inspired
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In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

Circumstance Faced Focus Focus Groups
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I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

Actor Deal Doing I Love
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In life, you need a best man, not a yes man. Don’t assume that a friend who often disagrees with you is a frenemy.

Life Best man Yes man Friend
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Praying to God for miracle money, without applying any effort is like waiting for a man to give birth. Money is the child.

Praying Effort Praying Give birth
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People love to associate with stars rather than support promising acts.

Love Associate Stars Support
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With age 30 comes a little more responsibility with a lot of life to live.

Little Life Responsibility Lot
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A scientific invention consists of six (or some number) ideas, five of which are absurd but which, with the addition of the sixth and enough rearrangement of the combinations, results in something no one has thought of before.

SCience Idea Enough Invention
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I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.

I Work Predominantly Tailors
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But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Associated Away Being Carried
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If I have to be at work at five A.M., I will get up at three and work out. I run. I do weights. I'm very toned. I'm like every other woman. I'd love to be 10 pounds or 20 pounds lighter. If I'm not, I'm OK with that, too. I'm good as long as I'm healthy.

Every Five Get Good
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Being He Honor Human
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Ignorance Own Your Yourself
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Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Being Definitely Fast Grow
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I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

Bunch Comedy Could Funny
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Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

Always Back Feeling Follow
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I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Always Better Correct Day
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When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

Always Apartment Because Comfortable
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Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Enjoy Opinion Discomfort Thought
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I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

Think Each Artist Lives
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All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

African Dispora Feel There
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I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
Basketball Day Every EveryDay
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When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me.

When Originally Came To
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I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.

I Was Raised Father
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I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.

I Describe Myself Big
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Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

Nothing I Am Doing
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I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

Started Singing Because Was
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I'm confident with my ability.

Ability Confident
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Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Basketball Contact Everything Family
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

Crap Cut Got Movie
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

Albums Ali Back Beats
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I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

Agnostic Appealed Back Breathed
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Against Artists Dangerous Great
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

According Aspect Between Dad
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Artist Became Educating IPod
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

Best Block Deadline Getting
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

Believe Delivering Example Fashion
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

Friends Hard Life Make
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I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.

Animated Charles Children Drawing
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Our lives are like these footprints. One day the tide will come. May we live a meaningful life and be blessed with children that will bless the world.

Lives Footprints Meaningful Bless
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Replace Careful End Always
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An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Against Side Artist Emperor
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Country Leave Without Off
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