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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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Concerts Country Debt World
The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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Father People Something Trying Wrong
God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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Ideas might Tiny
Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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Defense Homework World
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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Beautiful Being Respect Yourself
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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General Much People Rich
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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Awful Kind World
The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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Believe Children Ideas
It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Cynical Sweet Teeth
It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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Honesty Successful Thinking
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Inspirational Simple Understanding
The less you know, the more you believe.
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Believe Favourite Humility
It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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Blessing Looks Weakness
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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Commodities Oil School Two
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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Country Fire Flames Needs
For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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Littles Lost Moments
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Joy Laughter Real
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Inspirational Life Positive
God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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God Opportunity Wasted
I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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Darkness Song Writing
I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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Divides Issues People
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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Movie Ridiculous Silly Stars
There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Art Mastery Retirement
Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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Artist Technology Thinking
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Dream Sorrow Swim
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Artist Grief Inspiration
Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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Helping Jesus World

It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

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