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.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Think
  • Model
  • Better

• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Company
  • Meat

• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Always
  • Talent

• 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.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Color

• 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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Strong
  • City
  • New York

• You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • World
  • Art
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Man
  • Respect

• I'm a believer in paying your dues.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Your
  • Paying
  • Dues

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Angry
  • Attacks

• There's no alternative to Catalan independence.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Independence
  • Alternative

• We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • American
  • Reality
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Done
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Work
  • Star
  • Working

• To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • You
  • First
  • Elected

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Attitude
  • Circumstances

• This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Ideas
  • Safe
  • Havens

• I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• You tolerate me. You really tolerate me!

  

  Sean Penn
  • Tolerate

• 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.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Character
  • Perfect
  • Acting