John Forbes Nash, Jr. Quotes
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My first vocation was dance.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician because I didn't see myself doing or loving anything else as much.
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You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
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I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.
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People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.
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I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
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We've seen a tremendous rise in the level of anti-Muslim bigotry in our society - and against minorities of all kinds - but we've also seen a tremendous rise in support.
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Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
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Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.
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I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.
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I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.
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It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
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You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
