Don Cornelius Quotes
When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
Quotes to Explore
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
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Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
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And that's the key to George W. Bush: It's that he wants to be the smartest person in the room. But in order to be the smartest person in the room, you kinda have to fill that room with a lot of dim bulbs. And that's where we get the Alberto Gonzaleses, and the Harriet Mierses, and the 'you're-doing-a-heck-of-a-job-Brownie''s.
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I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
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There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
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If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
