Haywood Nelson Quotes
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.
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Sure enough, my life has been filled with some pretty interesting things every single day.
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I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
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When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.
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My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
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The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.
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Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.
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There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.
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I don't really have any big plans for 2008.
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Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.
