Nicholas Lea (Nicholas Christopher Herbert) Quotes
It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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I ain't no Kennedy, I ain't no Diddy Combs, I ain't no Jay Z, I ain't got it like them.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.
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'Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. '
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Clothe me entire in the final filament, So that I tremble with such love so known And myself am precious for your perfecting.
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I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.
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Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
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I really try to live my life a little more, in ways I would hold back from previously.
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My dad grew up in western Nebraska. I'd visit all the time as a kid, and it's very much like the Wild West. It felt to me like a cowboy movie. Stuff like that made me become this dreamer at a young age.
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Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?
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It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.
