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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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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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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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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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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Way down South they gave a jubilee Them Georgia folks they had a jamboree They’re drinking home brew from a wooden cup The folks dancing there got all shook up.
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As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
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I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.
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Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.
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Each time I play a song it seems more real.
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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.
