It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

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You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

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ifs knows trying

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it, We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth, So scared of what you think of me, I'm scared of even telling you...

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violence silence thinking

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

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violence silence thinking

Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

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being-yourself one-day love-you

The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.

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limitless hurt looks

Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.

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dues chasing moving

World is not designed for you to win; it's designed to be played. It's designed for you to play your position until a certain point, when you get a chance to actually do some good, make a statement, get on your soapbox and say something.

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chance winning world

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

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measure-of-success should fame

You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

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littles beautiful world

If they burn a book, have no worries. The book will feel NO pain so neither should you! True destruction of the Qur'an cannot be done with fire; it is destroyed when we fail to remember & practice its lessons in our daily lives. If this occurs, then it is ANOTHER fire that you should truly be concerned about!

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pain fire book

Takes a long time to happen so fast...

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rap long past

I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles.

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garden blessing rivers

Know the weapons of the weak, kill weakness of the heart and never fall asleep.

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weakness heart fall

Most things that are politically right are morally wrong

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My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.

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men enemy

I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know

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opposites trying long

My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.

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peaceful believe people

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

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land sky men

What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain

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clouded mind rain

I always say that you define what success is to yourself.

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