Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes

I was slinging whatever I could get my hands on. Whether it was chronic, whether it was crack.

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• I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• Funny is an attitude.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Attitude

• I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Think
  • Christmas
  • Pie

• If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Planned

• When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Talent

• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Amazing
  • Lists
  • Link

• I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Try
  • Take Advantage

• From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Perspective
  • Born
  • Try

• Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Society

• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.

  

  Halsey
  • Space
  • Difficult
  • Sound

• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Light
  • Problems
  • Darkness

• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Golf

• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Live
  • Alone

• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  

  Imran Khan
  • Time
  • Children
  • War

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Me
  • Planet
  • Glow

• It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Soccer
  • Schedule
  • Football Game

• I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Fun
  • Career
  • Storm

• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Wind
  • Destiny
  • Ocean

• I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.

  

  Michael Sweet Boston
  • Important
  • Band
  • Hands

• I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Hands
  • Novel
  • Ghost

• I was slinging whatever I could get my hands on. Whether it was chronic, whether it was crack.

  

  Nelly
  • Hands
  • Cracks