Nick Jonas Quotes
I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I have a great office.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.
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There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.
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War is not women's history.
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We understand instinctively that being a prodigy wasn’t Wayne Gretzky’s platform for a lifetime’s achievement; it marked the possibility of a highly specific, highly term-limited kind of performance.
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I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
