Nicholas Herbert Stern (Nicholas Stern) Quotes
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.
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I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.
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I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
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There is a perception that the Chinese started out downtrodden and abused in the 19th century and gradually rose to the top of society as model minorities, and you see them winning Nobel Prizes and getting into our best colleges. But it is not a linear progression. Things don't always get better.
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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.
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I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.
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I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East and Europe.
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If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
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I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.
