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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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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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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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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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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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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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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You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.
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The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
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I don't really have time to approve every shirt and sticker that gets made but I have been heavily involved in the big stuff like toys.
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I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.
