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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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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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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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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For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science, that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat’s are really deadly.
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
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I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.
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This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.
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'The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.' p144
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
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God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.
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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.
