Don Lemon Quotes
Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.
Quotes to Explore
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.
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When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them all of the dimensions of humanity, and that includes sexuality. Ascribe the human the full range of human qualities.
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Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
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It speaks to me in the silence of this one then through the words of that one speaking; it whispers to me through an eyebrow raised and the message of an eye winking.
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Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.
