John Niven Quotes
I understand that some people like certain things more than others, but by the time you are an adult, you really should be able to sit down and eat pretty much anything.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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It takes a long time for an idea to strike.
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Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.
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I understand that some people like certain things more than others, but by the time you are an adult, you really should be able to sit down and eat pretty much anything.
