I spent 35 years growing up in the U.S., and it had its ups and downs. -MF Doom

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I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn't go to school with no one. Nobody knows me - I'm incognito. It's all new, all fun. -MF Doom

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I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. — Serena Williams

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie

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I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona. -MF Doom

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If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value. ― Tony Meloto

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A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.- Gilbert Baker

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The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me, tackling that first novel. Just writing it. - Jesmyn Ward

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It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it. ― Haim Shapira

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I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

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