CeeLo Green (Thomas DeCarlo Callaway) Quotes
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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I don't like allegories.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
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There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.
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When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.
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Time flies whether you are having fun or not.
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As it happens I don't think it was God- the woman who saved me, she doesn't look like she's had much to do with angels, Perhaps the Devil was behind me all the time.”
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
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Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
