Nadine Velazquez Quotes

As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

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• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
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• The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

  

  Aaron Swartz
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• Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
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• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Children
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• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
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• Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Funny
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• I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

  

  Jack Ramsay
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• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  

  Gary Burton
  • People
  • Time
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• Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Today
  • Same
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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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• I look forward to working alongside Univision's exceptional team as we work to further realize the substantial growth potential of this dynamic organization.

  

  Randy Falco
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• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

  

  Wayne Allard
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• I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Up
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• Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Laziness
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• Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • World
  • Soul
  • Stars

• We're trying to stretch the supply of vaccine, but to be perfectly honest, if a pandemic occurs tomorrow, we can cover 4 million people.

  

  William Hall
  • Cover
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• We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

  

  Bob Ney
  • People
  • Moral
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• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls