CeeLo Green (Thomas DeCarlo Callaway) Quotes
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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I'm living the best life that I could ever be living.
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One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it, I can't get around it. I try to get around it, I keep trying to find one plus one is not two, somehow. I can't. People can talk about string theory, parallel realities, different dimensions, it's still one plus one is two, baby.
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All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.
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I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.
