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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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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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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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 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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I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
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I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt, sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittit.
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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
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Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man, in my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life.
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There is a difference between a passion and a fucking meltdown.
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You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
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When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home."
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I had a lot of depression as a kid.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The mistakes of history might be gradually forgotten, but historical truth cannot be forgotten, since forgetting history could lead to the recurrence of the same mistakes.
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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.
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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
