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.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Youth

• I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Never
  • Afraid

• 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.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Time
  • Human
  • Mistakes

• To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Honest

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• People want you to fail.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• 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.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • House
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Work
  • Me
  • Actor

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Great
  • Truth

• Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Conversation

• I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Know
  • Me
  • Feel

• I love anything quiz related.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Love
  • Related
  • Quiz

• 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.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Ideas

• Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • May
  • Me

• The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Constitution

• Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I had no musical training at all.

  

  Belinda Carlisle
  • Training

• A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Friends
  • Happy
  • Health

• How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Trying
  • Hands
  • Failing

• All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

  

  Luther Vandross Chic
  • School
  • Road
  • Journey

• Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • True
  • Giving
  • Hand

• I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Trying
  • Optimistic
  • Nerves