Clay Aiken
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I talk to friends of mine who are now teaching; they've graduated and they have classrooms. And I get really jealous, and I get really excited talking to them about their classrooms, and I want one. I think I'd be happy.
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I'm a realist, I'm not an optimist. I don't want false hope. I don't know where this is going for me.
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What I wanted to do was work with kids with behavioral and emotional handicaps. It's a puzzle, learning each child, because each child is different.
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If I'm supposed to carry the banner for all the nerds in the world, I'm fine with that.
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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.
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It's important that I make a difference in some way. If it's performing and touching someone that way, that's great; if it's being a teacher and helping a kid understand something, that's even better. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
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I hesitate to call myself a sex symbol. Lord help the sex symbol world if I'm one of them.
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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.
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Family is something I've always wanted, the one and a half kids and a dog.
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Fame and glory are fleeting, especially in the music business. That's why completing my degree and graduating from college were priorities.
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People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.
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I think that is what love is - when it's unimaginable to be away from the person, and you care about what makes them happy more than what makes you happy.
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My own personal position is that it's much more special to wait for the person who you're married to.
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There's nothing so wrong that it can't be easily fixed or easily ignored. I just let things roll off.
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I realized, I'm never gonna be a Brad Pitt, so get over it, be happy with yourself, and move on.
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It's okay for musicians not to be womanizers.
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The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.
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If you're in the public eye, you're either a womanizer or you're gay. I'm neither one.
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When you work with kids who have autism, they don't reciprocate any affection. You learn to find your self- worth within what you do, not what people tell you about yourself.
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You know who I idolized? Mr. Rogers. Is there a market for the next Mr. Rogers? Because I'd love to do that. I'd much rather be quiet and important like him than live large and be some useless celebrity.