Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes
I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
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I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.
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The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.
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Changing the states of many agents grossly alters behavior, while changing only a few just perturbs the overall disposition a little.
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I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.
