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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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 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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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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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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Our history is not our destiny.
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The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.
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Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
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I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.
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When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.
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If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.
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What happens when I'm making a new album is I try not to listen to music that's coming out at the time. I turn off the radio and don't read any music blogs, because I tend to get really distracted by new music. When I hear it, I think, "Should I be doing that?"
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In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.
