Jeff Nichols Quotes

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Him

• I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Never
  • See
  • Talk

• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy

• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Me
  • Dare
  • Totally

• Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • World
  • School
  • Faith

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • You
  • Running
  • Look

• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Me
  • Democracy

• I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Feel

• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Me
  • Conscious

• I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry

• Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.

  

  John Burnside
  • World

• Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.

  

  Gary Pruitt
  • Results
  • Advertising
  • Performances

• A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Real
  • I Believe
  • Duty

• Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Real