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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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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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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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.
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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.
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My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pains. For I cannot be without existing for all, for all who are silent and oppressed, I come from the people and I sing for them: my poetry is song and punnishment.
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The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States.
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I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.
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The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.
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Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
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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.
