Nicholas Braun (Nicholas Joseph Braun) Quotes
I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
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I actually had a buzz cut all the way to my junior year in college. I would just buzz my head with a one-guard all over, and then I started growing it out. When I had Tommy John, that was the last time it was buzzed. I've grown it ever since then.
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We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.
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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
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God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.
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I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
