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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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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Let there be no doubt that any failure by Iraq to comply with its obligations will lead to serious consequences, ... For it is only the credible threat of force which has brought Iraq this far today.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I know. I know that if I keep moving I stand a chance. I must keep myself going until I find a reason to live. I need one so bad. On the other hand maybe I don't. Maybe it's all bullshit. Nothing I knew from my old life can help me here. Most of the things that I believed turned out to be useless. Appendages from someone else's life.
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I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."
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The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.
