Nicholas Herbert Stern (Nicholas Stern) Quotes
I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
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Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
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Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
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I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
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You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.
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The best money I made was panhandling.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.
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Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'
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I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.
