Haywood Nelson Quotes
I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.
Quotes to Explore
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.
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I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
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It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.
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The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
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I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. There are so many of us who do come from immigrants - even some people who support Trump's travel ban. I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.
