Nate Ruess Quotes

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • War
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

  

  Wale
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Father
  • Think
  • Son

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • World
  • American
  • Weird

• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • House
  • Me
  • Star

• I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Loved

• What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Children
  • Society

• For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Good
  • New
  • Enjoyment

• One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Real
  • Business
  • Know

• I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Mind
  • Together

• In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • May
  • Simple

• The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reading
  • Can Do
  • Complaints

• We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Great
  • Dreams

• Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Despair
  • Message
  • Way Out

• I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.

  

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