CeeLo Green (Thomas DeCarlo Callaway) Quotes
All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
-
Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
-
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
-
I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
-
I don't know the right way to retire.
-
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
-
Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
-
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
-
Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
-
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
-
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
-
A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
-
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
-
Time is the devourer of all things.
-
It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
-
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
-
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
-
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
-
God never promises exemption. He does promise companionship, which is better. He does not promise do deliver you or me or any other individual from pain, sorrow, or economic disaster, but He does give assurance the He will help us through and that there will be compensations. "I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you." These are the words of Jesus.
-
Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
-
I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.
-
The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.
-
There are some people in life that you can't get over.
-
All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.
