John Niven Quotes
America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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We would probably claim Kafka as an Irish writer. His tone of voice is certainly quite Irish: that sense of melancholy, that sense of strangeness and of being a stranger in the world. I think that we empathise with that very much indeed.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.
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America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?
