Don Nickles Quotes
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.
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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
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The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
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If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
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I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.
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I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.
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Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.
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It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.
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Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
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'Nothing', I said sadly. 'They are two delightful women!' 'And neither of them is for you?' finished Poirot. 'Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?'
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I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's 'symbolism'. Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.
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Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.
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I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
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I always intended to return to the private sector.
