Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I'm a real optimist.
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I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
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I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.
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As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
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Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.
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I'm never the best singer in the world.
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It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song
