CeeLo Green (Thomas DeCarlo Callaway) Quotes
Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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White people love Wayne Brady, because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.
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Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.
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It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.
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Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.
