Cenk Uygur Quotes
I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.
Quotes to Explore
-
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
-
I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
-
You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
-
I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
-
Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
-
I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
-
The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
-
I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
-
We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
-
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
-
I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
-
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
-
I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
-
Hear the other side.
-
I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
-
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
-
It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
-
I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
-
Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
-
Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.
-
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
-
I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
-
It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
-
I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.
