Nicholas Herbert Stern (Nicholas Stern) Quotes
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
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'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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I hate birthdays.
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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Since I finished on 'The Mentalist,' I didn't need to be so near to the studio, so we decided to move a bit further out where you can get more house for your money, too. It definitely feels more like home.
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Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.
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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
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And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.
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If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.
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When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
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There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
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True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
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A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
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The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
