Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes
I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not.
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I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.
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I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.
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I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.
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I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
