Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
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I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
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Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.
