Kent Nerburn Quotes
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.
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We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.
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Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
