Kristian Nairn Quotes
I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things and stuff.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Two enemies - the same man divided.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.
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For the parents of the youth of Africa, please give your kids a chance to realise their dreams.
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I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things and stuff.
