Nick Clooney (Nicholas Joseph Clooney) Quotes

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

Nick Clooney

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• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
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• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
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• I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

  

  Camryn Manheim
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• Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

  

  Basil Hume
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• To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

  

  Carl Honore
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• All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that's them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it.

  

  Fat Joe
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• What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• Crime is a form of 'unorganized' class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.

  

  Daniel Bell
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• I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
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• We were against oppression, and then we elevated our struggle to demand our rights. We will go against all the dictators, and not only Saleh in Yemen, so we can spread peace.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
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• Today war seems to have undergone a change of meaning, insofar as it is not a war of religion but a war of interests, not a war of conflicting cultures or civilizations but a war of national areas, not a war of human beings but a technical struggle of machines one against another and all against the non–combatant population.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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• Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.

  

  Eric Weiner
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• While 'Teachers' may have had its following, it was on late-night Channel Four, whereas 'EastEnders' was seen by millions and millions of people. I certainly don't have the cache to sell a programme like that, and certainly nobody's coming up and asking me to.

  

  Raquel Cassidy
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• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
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• I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

  

  Dan Scanlon
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• The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

  

  Nick Clooney
  • Struggle
  • Happen
  • Ideological