Jeff Nichols Quotes
I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.
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I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.
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We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.
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If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
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I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.
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Hate knows that love is the cure.
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Marx... Lenin... Mao Tse-Tung... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.
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Not all films are going to go down in history.
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Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.
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I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.
