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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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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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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Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.
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If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.
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You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.
