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It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

Clay Aiken

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Clay Aiken
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: November 30
Actor
Musician
Politician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Raleigh
North Carolina
Clayton Holmes Aiken
Fame
Influence
Money

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.
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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.
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I never knew that people made a club for me!
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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.
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But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
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When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.
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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.
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And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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