David Nicholls Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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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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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
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As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
