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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities. -- Clay Aiken
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I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. -- Clay Aiken
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I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know? -- Clay Aiken
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I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation. -- Clay Aiken
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Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for
that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way. -- Clay Aiken
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I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life. -- Clay Aiken
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I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that. -- Clay Aiken
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UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause? -- Clay Aiken
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If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. -- Clay Aiken
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I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life. -- Clay Aiken
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If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on. -- Clay Aiken
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I'm around a lot of good people who keep me grounded and don't let me get too high above my raisings. I have some good friends who don't talk about my job, and that's nice. Those are the friends who are my favorites. That helps a lot. -- Clay Aiken
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I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people. -- Clay Aiken
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Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity. -- Clay Aiken
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I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act. -- Clay Aiken
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In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. -- Clay Aiken
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And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself. -- Clay Aiken
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I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it. -- Clay Aiken
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A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone. -- Clay Aiken
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I don't really do New Year's resolutions because I don't think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you've got a problem, you need to fix it now. -- Clay Aiken
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Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something? -- Clay Aiken
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I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on. -- Clay Aiken
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I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation. -- Clay Aiken
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I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately. -- Clay Aiken
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There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure. -- Clay Aiken
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I really love live performing! -- Clay Aiken
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I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old. -- Clay Aiken
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You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you. -- Clay Aiken
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I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her. -- Clay Aiken
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When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say? -- Clay Aiken
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The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like. -- Clay Aiken
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I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me. -- Clay Aiken
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I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make! -- Clay Aiken
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Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice. -- Clay Aiken
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My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. -- Clay Aiken
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I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show. -- Clay Aiken
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A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation. -- Clay Aiken
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It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do. -- Clay Aiken
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I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it. -- Clay Aiken
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Every kiss is a kiss you can never get back. -- Clay Aiken
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Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did. -- Clay Aiken
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I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly. -- Clay Aiken
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I auditioned just for fun. -- Clay Aiken
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I'm tired and I don't know what day it is. -- Clay Aiken
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I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later. -- Clay Aiken
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I never knew that people made a club for me! -- Clay Aiken
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I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis. -- Clay Aiken
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It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. -- Clay Aiken
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I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same. -- Clay Aiken
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It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do. -- Clay Aiken
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If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert. -- Clay Aiken
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Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration. -- Clay Aiken
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I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me. -- Clay Aiken
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Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them. -- Clay Aiken
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I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist ... or maybe even a pessimist. -- Clay Aiken
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I don't really feel like I have anybody to answer to but myself and God and the people I love. -- Clay Aiken
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I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch. -- Clay Aiken
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I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything. -- Clay Aiken
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I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. -- Clay Aiken
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But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much. -- Clay Aiken
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I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model. -- Clay Aiken
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Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone. -- Clay Aiken
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Love others and as you do, that love will return to you. -- Clay Aiken
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And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on. -- Clay Aiken
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The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. -- Clay Aiken
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I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! -- Clay Aiken
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I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do. -- Clay Aiken
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It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this. -- Clay Aiken
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I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case. -- Clay Aiken
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While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support. -- Clay Aiken
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The message I'll share ... is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities. -- Clay Aiken
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As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see. -- Clay Aiken