Kristian Nairn Quotes
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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I'm totally myself.
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I admire people who destroy themselves.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
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The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.
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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Thor. I had a hammer.
