James Nicoll Quotes
Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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It ain't what you do it's how you do it.
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We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.
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Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
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I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.
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I used to think fashion was silly, and now I think it can be one of the purest expressions of art.
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Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.
