Nicholas Lea (Nicholas Christopher Herbert) Quotes
I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nicholas-lea-quotes
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
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My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
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History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.
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Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.
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I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
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I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nicholas-lea-quotes
