CeeLo Green (Thomas DeCarlo Callaway) Quotes
To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
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My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.
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In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.
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Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.
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To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.
