Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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People want you to fail.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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I love anything quiz related.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
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I used to look at a pint of Haagen-Dazs and call it a serving size.
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Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck.
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I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.
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It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.
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Unemployment is higher in Europe than in the United States and primarily concentrated in immigrant minority populations, so people are worried about what's going to happen and if American-style ghettos are emerging in Europe. There are some of the problems there that America sees associated with the lack of economic inclusion - family breakdown, gang behavior, and racial tensions. I get the sense that in Europe they are much more concerned about these issues than in the United States.
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When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
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16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
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I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.
