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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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
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I have never yet failed to get a hearing (with a Hindu) if I talk to them about forgiveness of sins and peace and rest in your heart.
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Love, peace and soul.
