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.

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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.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Work
  • City
  • How

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Party
  • Revolution

• 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.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Different
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Band
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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  • Work
  • Great

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Live
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Remember
  • Want

• I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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  • Stop
  • Practice

• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  

  Walter Lang
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  • World
  • Good

• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Stop
  • Doctor

• 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.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• When it comes to brands and having the opportunity to be an entrepreneur, social media has really become a great outlet for people to become their own boss.

  

  Christine Flores
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Past

• Blessed are those who have no talent!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Blessed

• Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Haywood Nelson
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