Kristian Nairn Quotes
I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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…the totalitarian states, whether of the fascist or the communist persuasion, are more than superficially alike as dictatorships, in the suppression of dissent, and in operating planned and directed economies. They are profoundly alike.
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
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The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.
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There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
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When I worked in the White House in the 1970s and '80s, I was often stopped within the White House by agents checking my credentials. They were very observant and would stop anyone they didn't recognize.
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The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.
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I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.
