David Nicholls Quotes

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

David Nicholls

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• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
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• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
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• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
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• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
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• I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
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• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
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• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
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• Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

  

  Dan Harmon
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• The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• You're always waiting on the tide,It's time you decide.I've walked down long roads that seem to have no end at all.You never wanted time to end,To let my life offend.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
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• I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.

  

  David Alpay
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• Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

  

  Saku Koivu
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• This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Life
  • City