Don Lemon Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Don Lemon:
The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.
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When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.
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I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.
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Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.
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You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
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I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.
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When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.
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I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.
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I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth.
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I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.
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Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.
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I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
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Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.
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If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world.
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I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.
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I'm not concerned with what people think of me.
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You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.
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In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.
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I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.
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Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
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Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.
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I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.
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Learn to love being black.
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Can the president really blame Fox News for his problems?
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Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know.
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Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.
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I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.
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I don't watch the media that much.
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Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.
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There's a degree of deception in silence.
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African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.
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The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.
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I love old school rock and roll.
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There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar!
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Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.
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I was born gay, just as I was born black.
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Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
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When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.
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My mom tells me every single day that she's proud of me.
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I abhor hypocrisy.
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People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!'
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It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.
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More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
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I'm a citizen of the world.
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I do feel that Paula Deen should not have lost her job, and I've said this on the air. The marketplace should have decided. The marketplace decided something different. Her books are No. 1.
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In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'
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I was hired by the 'Tom Joyner Morning Show' to do commentary that makes people think. I want my audience to feel like they are learning and not being pandered to.
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Whatever happens with my career, I'm going to prosper no matter what.
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If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.
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It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
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If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree.
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I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.
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I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.
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Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.
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More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
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We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.
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I like all kinds of music. I hope you do, too.
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Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.
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When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.
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I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'
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