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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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Clay Aiken
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: November 30
Actor
Musician
Politician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Raleigh
North Carolina
Clayton Holmes Aiken
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Bigs
Shows
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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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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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UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?
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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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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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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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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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Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?
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I never knew that people made a club for me!
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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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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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You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.
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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.
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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 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
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