Cenk Uygur Quotes
I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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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.
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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.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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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.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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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.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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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.
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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.
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Hear the other side.
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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.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Who doesn't love Game of Thrones? Sons of Anarchy is funny and thug-ish. I love Shameless. I just sit with my hat tipped, waiting for something to happen, more than going out after the shows.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
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I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.
