Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes
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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.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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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.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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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.
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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.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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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.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
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Ambition without contribution is of no significance.
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Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.
