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For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.
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Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
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Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'
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The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.
