Nicholas Haslam (Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam) Quotes
I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.
