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
  • Way
  • You
  • 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

• Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• 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

• I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Texas

• 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

• Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Comedy
  • Mirror
  • Mood

• You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Song
  • You

• When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • House
  • Culture
  • Broke

• I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Judging
  • Talking

• Even the pre-schoolers are like, 'I watch you on The Jonas Brothers.' And my own kids. I have been in the greatest movies, even some for kids, and they were never impressed until I did 'Jonas L.A.'

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Kids

• 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