Kristian Nairn Quotes
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
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Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
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I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me,But I must admit that I find Mr. Ickes or any otherspeaker far more convincing when I agree withhim than when I disagree.
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It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
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People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
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It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.
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I love saying 'Hodor!'
