Daniel Nestor Quotes
My parents are proud to be Canadian, as I am. They had a lot to do with my success and sacrificed a lot over the years.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
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We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.
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Parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.
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My parents are proud to be Canadian, as I am. They had a lot to do with my success and sacrificed a lot over the years.
