James Nicoll Quotes
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
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Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
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Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.
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p. 63
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
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I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.
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Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.
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Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
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There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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'Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.'
