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On dancing the tango: “I like it a lot. It’s something that comes from within me.”
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"We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed."
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"The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended."
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"Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s going to come a time that you’re going to know: There was a reason for that."
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"I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.'"
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"I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God, there is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation."
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"We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success."
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"Transcendence remains because that light, all in everything, transcends the universe and the species it inhabits at this stage."
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"I want to thank God because that’s who I look up to. He has graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human hand."
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"God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us."
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"I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me."
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