Nicholas Sparks Quotes
...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.
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I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
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Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
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God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.
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It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.
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Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a girl, because he is represented as a young man) is complicated. He knows he's looking at photographs of a girl and copying those poses. So the audience sees him as a man, but he can only see himself as a woman, because that's the model he's looking at. It was a really interesting exchange.
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Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.
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In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.
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I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.
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That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
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I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money.
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All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates.
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It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
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Believe it or not, I'm not really thinking about anything when I putt....It's hard to teach. I let my instincts take over. I like to see which way the break is going and use it. When I'm putting well, I feel like I can make everything.
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...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.
