Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
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I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
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Happiness was born a twin.
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As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.
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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
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A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.
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We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.
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I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.
