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MTV's "The X-Effect"
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"I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon. I seek to develop whatever talents God gave me—not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say – ‘This, with God’s help, I have done.’ All this is what it means to be an American." -Dean Alfange "My Creed"
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When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least:
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,--and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings'.-William Shakespeare(1564 - 1616)
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"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
~Ayn Rand
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Keep your eyes on the prize, never look down.
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To make a long story short, I left the parents' nest when I was 13 and went to Culver Military Academy. Somehow along the way I wound up in England at the Sherborne School for Boys and backpacked around Europe for a bit. At 19, I found part of myself at Vassar College in New York, but the other part was already in LA. I recently hosted a show called "The X-Effect" on MTV. Some of you might have seen me in the October 2005 issue of Teen People, you can see a copy of the article if you take a look through my pictures and I've got a few commercials I've done posted in my blog. Leave me some luvin' and I'll get back to you when I get a second or two or ten.
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HOBY World Leadership Congress 1998
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