John Niven Quotes
If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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This is unproven technology, and if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't interact with tokens - from an investor and security perspective.
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.
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People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it's an honor.
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When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
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That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
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I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
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Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
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There are more copies than originals among people.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
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If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.
