Cedric the Entertainer (Cedric Antonio Kyles) Quotes
I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.
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Look, you see those groups talking about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.
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Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.
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I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.
