James Nicoll Quotes
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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So many times, genuine health workers and genuine NGO folks are really just trying to help other humans in whatever capacity they can. But they are perceived as being CIA, and therefore, it blocks their effectiveness.
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We look at politicians and think: This one's owned by this millionaire. That one's owned by that millionaire, or lobbyist, or special interest group. Me? I speak for the people. So the establishment attacks me. They can't own me, they can't dictate to me, so they search for ways to dismiss me.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.
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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
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You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.
