James Nicoll Quotes
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
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If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
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Terrorism was too tame for the Scots: they used lawyers.
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Alas, time and head injuries are stealing all my memories.
