Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

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• I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Doing
  • Problems
  • Working

• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • People
  • Change
  • Dad

• I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Mind
  • Alone

• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Body

• When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Know
  • Always
  • Fly

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  

  Florence King
  • Feminism
  • Travels
  • Spinsterhood

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Women
  • Opinion

• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Remember
  • You
  • Forget

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Know
  • Moments
  • Fast

• In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Hope
  • Competitive
  • Striving

• Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Tea
  • Numbers
  • Cup

• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Gold

• I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Myself
  • Normal
  • Bear

• Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Lovers

• The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on a barstool. An abstract thesis with no real life inside it. And then I start writing and the writing itself confounds me, taking away the comfort of knowing the end in advance. How is that even possible? Doesn't the conclusion come at the end? How can you begin with one - that seems odd, right?

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Real

• Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

  

  Nelly
  • Politics
  • Average
  • Savage