CeeLo Green (Thomas DeCarlo Callaway) Quotes
I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
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I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
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I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.
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Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
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I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.
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Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!
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In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng....
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This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
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I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.
