James Nicoll Quotes
It would let me protect the Earth from asteroids. In fact, for a small fee I would protect the Earth on a monthly basis, locating rocks that could be steered into the Earth and then not doing it if the cheque didn't bounce.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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Omidyar Network first supported Africa Check in 2014 when they were a team of just three dedicated people intent on building a more fact-based environment for public debate in South Africa.
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God loves an idle rainbow, Not less than labouring seas.
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Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!
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It would let me protect the Earth from asteroids. In fact, for a small fee I would protect the Earth on a monthly basis, locating rocks that could be steered into the Earth and then not doing it if the cheque didn't bounce.
