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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

My body Hands Actions Strongest
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Mistake Regard age Toward dissolution
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God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

God abandons Courage Shut up
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Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.

Nature Speak Intelligence Language
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I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

After Bad Better Break
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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Anyone Anything Because Dealing
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Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Children Date Guy IThink
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The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.

Actually Amount Exceed Grieving
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If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Absolutely Any Any Circumstances Circumstances
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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Convincing Health Inequality Instability
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Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

Bad Barbie Because Grow
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The point is we are borrowing, but we are borrowing sensibly. Seriously, no country develops with its own resources alone especially countries in Africa

Borrowing Sensibly Country Develop
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You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Another Because Hierarchy Means
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart…for it is better to be true than to be right.

You do Heart True Right
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I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don’t think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn’t fear the knife because it is dead already. I have a dead goat syndrome

Strikes Demonstrations Get worse Goat
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Whenever I'm faced with an issue, I deal with it squarely, even if I was going to fail, I try to learn from my mistakes. So if we appreciate our past, then we can understand where we are at presently.

Whenever Faced Issue Fail
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With the kinds of progress we’re seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

Progress Africa Kinds Gets better
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Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

Before slavery Medicine Malaria
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

Chocolate Eat Fight Fighting
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When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Basics Dancer First Grand
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Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Act Advantage Always Audience
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Anyone Bald Confident Diamond
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

American Different Dream Lives
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When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
Complete Complete Freedom Concerned Freedom
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We must do what is necessary within the rules of ethics. Once Africa understands this, the values of integrity will become the norm, and will promote private sector development.

Do Necessary Rule Ethics
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Committed Couple Doing First
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You can’t be successful in business without taking risk.
Successful Business Taking risk
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Carry Everywhere First Me
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… Many African leaders have realized that they can no longer be the “adversaries’ of the private sector. They must work with entrepreneurs.

Leaders Realized Adversaries Private sector
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I believe that just like a man can serve his God without being a clergy, so can a man serve his state without being the governor.

I believe Serve God State
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Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

About Actually Around Casual
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

Being Cross Dealing Get
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The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

Find Grew Joy Me
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Able Art Beyond Could
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The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

Trouble Movie Released Accident
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With this team we can take on anyone in this competition.

Team Anyone Competition Take on
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I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

Never make Mind up Over Done with
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I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

Sincere towards Experimenting Fills Enthusiasm
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I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

Love Moving Town Spirit rising
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Serious stories World Failure Death
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I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Always Beautiful Dad Family
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A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

A Real Man Complete Days Find
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Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

Be Happy Dinner Enough Find
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These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Acceptance Come Conquer Emotions
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Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

Born Different Different Things Leave
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My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.

Along Always Arts Bad
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What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.

Classic Did Era Frame
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I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

Arguing Bothers Lose Me
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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Belonging Ever Live Others
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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

Election Politicians Actors Power
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