Nick Cummins (Nicholas Mark Cummins) Quotes
The more nature and stuff, the better. The source of our power comes from nature, and the closer to nature you are, the more you can power up.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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The creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.
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I grew up in war-torn Iraq, and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.
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Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American.
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I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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The more nature and stuff, the better. The source of our power comes from nature, and the closer to nature you are, the more you can power up.
