Kristian Nairn Quotes

I could never see myself playing a goblin or gnome, without some serious CGI at least!

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Want
  • You
  • Fans

• My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Real
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Spoken

• A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Himself

• My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one of these guys that does the 15-20 minute nap. I don't play those games. I'm, like, an hour minimum. I'm not gonna lay down unless I know I have at least an hour.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Know
  • Down

• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Path
  • Yourself
  • Obstacles

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• I love 'Glee.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Glee

• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Man
  • Poet
  • Lightning

• My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Support
  • Heaven
  • Grow

• The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • King
  • Songs
  • Sadness

• I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Serious
  • Competition
  • Injuries

• I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Writing
  • Running
  • Serious

• Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin

  

  B. H. Roberts
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Facts

• I could never see myself playing a goblin or gnome, without some serious CGI at least!

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Serious