Don Cornelius Quotes
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
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These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.
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Love, peace and soul.
