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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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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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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We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
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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 can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.
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It's not good to argue with your woman about something, because women feel strong about it, they slap you in your face, you still go back to them.
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If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.
