Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I never left doo wop.
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We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.
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Wells Fargo had a glitch - the truth of the matter is they made a business judgement that was wrong. I don't think anything is fundamentally wrong.
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There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
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Triune, shaping, restless power, Life-flow from life's natal hour, No music chords are in thy sound; By some thou'rt but a rattle found; Yet, without thy ceaseless motion, To ice would turn their dead devotion.
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You can't love music without loving the Beatles.
