Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
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I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.
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First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!
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He's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years.
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
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It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
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Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide.
