Nick Clooney (Nicholas Joseph Clooney) Quotes

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Nick Clooney

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• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinions

• What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Going
  • Inside
  • Outside

• I look formidable.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Look
  • Formidable

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Reader
  • Terms

• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Black
  • Everything
  • Ships

• The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Law
  • Purpose
  • Professional

• Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Women
  • American
  • Hope

• I'll tell ya, in New York City, where I've lived far too long, 'fuck' isn't even a word, it's a comma.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Long
  • City

• I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Up
  • Country
  • Heart

• The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

  

  David Mamet
  • Great
  • Struggle
  • Drama

• All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

  

  Barry Cornwall
  • Friends

• The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

  

  Mark Twain
  • People
  • Hair
  • Red

• You never compete with the people in your crew; you have your own team. Competition is only with those people whose film is releasing alongside on Friday and never with one's own team.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • People
  • Team
  • Competition

• December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, was generally exhausted at the end of the year, and just wanted to hide. I described myself as a 'cranky Jewish kid who felt left out by Christmas.'

  

  Brad Feld
  • Christmas
  • December

• When I wake up, I put on what I'm in the mood to wear.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Up
  • Mood

• Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Hope

• We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Struggle
  • Language
  • Unconscious

• Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• The consciousness of a general idea has a certain 'unity of the ego' in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Mind
  • Ego
  • Unity

• Hubble made my career.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Career
  • Hubble

• We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

  

  Nick Clooney
  • Evil
  • Defeat
  • Becoming