Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

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• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Dwell

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • You
  • Way
  • Know

• You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Up
  • You
  • Opportunity

• I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Never
  • Understand

• Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Women
  • Real

• I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.

  

  Washed Out
  • Pretty
  • Try
  • Normal

• I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Chief
  • Behave
  • Commander

• We understand instinctively that being a prodigy wasn’t Wayne Gretzky’s platform for a lifetime’s achievement; it marked the possibility of a highly specific, highly term-limited kind of performance.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Achievement

• You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

  

  James Carville

• My husband loves the '90s; he's an avid '90s movie watcher, and it drives me insane. Nothing real came out of the '90s! The bad bathing suits that came up too high on women's hips came out in the '90s!

  

  Lindsey McKeon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Real

• I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Work
  • Book

• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Bad

• There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Joy
  • Gratitude

• My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • People
  • Dad

• I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

  

  Jeremy London

• I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Business
  • Character
  • Giving

• There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

  

  Neale Donald Walsch
  • Book
  • Bible

• In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

  

  Audrey Tautou
  • Law
  • Picture

• Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • Time
  • Marriage
  • Effort

• What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

  

  Archibald Cox
  • World
  • May
  • She

• I think everything everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils. I could go on for hours. I make my own medicines; I don’t get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s appealing to my soul.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Lifestyle
  • Alternative
  • Fairly

• I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

  

  Lea Thompson

• I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

  

  Nick Cannon