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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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
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The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.
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It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.
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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.
