Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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There's no alternative to Catalan independence.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
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I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
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To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
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You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
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I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.
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Grievance does not make for great art.
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Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
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The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.
