Jeff Nichols Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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Where is Winnie the Pooh without it's illustrations?
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Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.’
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
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You are my fire the one desire<brb>Believe when I say I want it that way
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By 25, I was a millionaire.
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Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.
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I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
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If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
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Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.
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Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.
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We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
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I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles.
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Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions. A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would be in the car and you know we would kind of be riding dirty. So like I said, again man, I was very naïve.
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Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.
