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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One film is based on the Medea myth about a woman who kills her own child - The Love of Ruins. It is almost a technical exercise to see if I can convince an audience or make an audience sympathetic to a woman who kills her own child.
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Until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.
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When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.
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I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.
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As we face our own fears, we give others the courage to face theirs, too.
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You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
