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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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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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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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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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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When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.
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I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.
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It's not something someone sets out to do - I never really set out to make movies about strong fighting women, but it just seems to happen that way. I've certainly known some, and I think my sister was probably a big influence.
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Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.
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In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.
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There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.
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Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.
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Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.
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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
