Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

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• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Down

• All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Determination

• I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Style
  • Pushing
  • Original

• Failure is a part of success.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Part

• You give the money where you want it.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Money
  • Want
  • You

• I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Want
  • Die
  • Enjoy

• There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Man
  • Amazing

• As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Childhood
  • Human
  • Generation

• As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Memories

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time

• A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Cuando creo que la piedra es piedra, que la nube es nube, me hallo es un estado de inconsciencia.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

  

  David Hume

• I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Parents
  • Trust
  • Tattoo

• Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

  

  Eli Pariser
  • Work
  • Control

• Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

  

  John Ridley
  • Believe

• We still have much work to do. The American people care little about procedure, but they care a lot about final results.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Live
  • Power

• For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Wife

• Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Single
  • Data

• People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Soul
  • Friend
  • Senior