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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
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Fame

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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.
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I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.
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The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
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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.
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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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I'm tired and I don't know what day it is.
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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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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 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.
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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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And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.
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I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!
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The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.
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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'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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You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.
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Actually, I dont hate cats, Im just kind of afraid of them.
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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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Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?
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