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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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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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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Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats.
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When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.
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I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.
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Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.
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I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.
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Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.
