Nick Cummins (Nicholas Mark Cummins) Quotes
Everyone has their own mission in life and what they've got to do. You can't knock them for it. There's always a lot going on in people's lives.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'
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I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
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Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
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There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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There are to whom each symbol is a mask; The life of love is a mysterious task; They want no answer, for they would not ask.
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If you are good enough to compete for a top-level corporate job, you should be smart enough to know what the job pays the other gender and negotiate accordingly. If you are an employer, and you don't pay an employee market wages, regardless of gender or orientation, you will end up with what you deserve.
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When I was a first year student at Julliard, I wasn't happy, not sure about this acting thing.
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Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.
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Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.
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A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
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Everyone has their own mission in life and what they've got to do. You can't knock them for it. There's always a lot going on in people's lives.
