Nicholas Herbert Stern (Nicholas Stern) Quotes
There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer; I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.
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Callas? She was pure electricity.
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Everyday is a revolution.Welcome to the future.
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I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.
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Every day, every one of us sets the stage for our sentiment, our confidence, and our success by getting dressed. When you feel great, when you feel your best, it opens up a world of possibility. Feeling confident and self-assured are important inputs into good days, successful days, and happy days.
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Whilst I've got these opportunities, and whilst I still love doing it, acting is something I can see myself continuing forever until I get bored of it.
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You wouldn't want to be in a rock band - trust me.
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In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
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People don't think music to be a reliable source of income or career, which I will agree, in a way, because Bollywood is a very risky place to be in.
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I think I have stopped being nervous about the outcome of a film. The five consecutive flops in 1997 and the five consecutive hits in 1999 have mellowed me in many ways.
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There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
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No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.
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I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.
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There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
