Don Cornelius Quotes
My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.
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It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.
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Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.
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My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
