David Nicholls Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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I'm one of those people who always needs a mountain to climb. When I get up a mountain as far as I think I'm going to get, I try to find another mountain.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
