Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes
Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.
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Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a very friendly person, and I literally do just want to be your friend. I think all of that is wrapped up in yellow. It seems to work. I like being in it.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
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When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.
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I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.
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I realise that women don't want to get treated differently but just equally. I don't know what feminism is all about, but I understand that women should be treated equally, and I endorse that thought.
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If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.
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Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.
