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I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

Jidenna

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MotherColorAmericaWhiteNever

It's hard to say what an album is about - because each one is usually about a lot of things to me, but then I hope it also can mean a lot of different things to someone else. That's the beautiful thing about music.

Jim James

MusicHopeBeautifulMeSomeoneSay

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

Joel Coen

KnowThreeGotMeansVeryWeeks

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

Mehmet Oz

LifeSleepAgingNightLongYou

Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.

John McAfee

SimpleYourselfYouPrinciplesCall

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

Robert Caro

LeaderLongRisePartyEveryoneUp

The main reason why it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism. The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are.

Ronald Coase

OrganizingPriceWhyReasonCost

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

Mohammed Morsi

FreedomPeaceSeriousExpression

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Louis C. K.

MeIdeasPitchingOutHeadRoom

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

Loleatta Holloway

WomanChildSingingVoiceChurch

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

Chris Liddell

ChallengeDecisionsDoingFinding

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

Bob Filner

TodayViolenceYouStatisticsTrue

The first chance I had to go to Japan, which was in the early nineties, I went to a Noh play. I thought, 'This is very, very slow.' I noticed lots of people falling asleep. I didn't really know what was going on; I was getting a little sleepy myself. Then the more I studied it, the more fascinated I got.

William T. Vollmann

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