"I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at."

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Source : "Fantasia Barrino Is Third 'American Idol'". www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2004.

Fantasia Barrino

“Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.”
“It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.”

Source : "How language transformed humanity". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.
“No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.”
“Most people who have wealth came from nothing or their parents came from nothing. And this idea that anyone can grow wealth is central to what we do.”
“I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately”

Source : Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.
“If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.”
“Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.”
“Maybe don't make it so.”

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