"Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out."

-- William Cowper

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“For me, I enjoy intimidating people and I enjoy being intimidated. It is exciting. It's cool to have an experience with someone where you challenge them, and they are afraid, and then they love you and they've grown. When that happens to me, I feel so blessed if somebody has opened my world up a little bit more.”
“A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.”
“The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.”
“I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.”
“Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.”

Source : "Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.
“The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact..”
“If you listen to soul music, or R&B music, or Blues music, a lot of that came from church music and spiritual music, and music has always been a really really powerful tool that people have used to get them closer to God - whatever they define God as. And for me that's always been part of what drew me to it and keeps me coming back for more.”
“The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.”

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