Sam Neill (Nigel John Dermot Neill) Quotes
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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I don't really go out at all.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
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I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.
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Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile, It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal.
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More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
