Nelsan Ellis Quotes
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.
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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more.
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Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.
