Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes
Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.
Nelly
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
Kate Walsh
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
Rachel Kushner
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
Rachel Kushner
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
Laura Bush
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
Barack Obama
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
Kate Grenville
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The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
Douglas Coupland
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Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.
William Ellery Channing
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Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
Jon Batiste
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It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
Colleen McCullough
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Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.
Nelly