Nick Clooney (Nicholas Joseph Clooney) Quotes
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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I don't want to be a pretty boy.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?
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I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.
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The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
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To make sure we aren't training people for jobs that don't exist, the government should provide companies with loans or loan guarantees. And the government should also directly employ people to do things like coastal restoration, land restoration, reforestation and similar programs that absorb carbon and protect America's beauty.
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In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
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America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
