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?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Feel
  • Scared
  • Empowered

• I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?

  

  Becky Lynch
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• 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.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Me
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• 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.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• 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?'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Money
  • You
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Man
  • Black
  • Theatre

• 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.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Intelligent

• 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.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Believe
  • War

• 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.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science

• Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Suicide

• 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.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Book

• I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Wish

• Cote de Pablo is one of my best friends! We went to college together.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Friends
  • Together
  • College

• The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

  

  James Packer
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• I'm not used to getting good reviews.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Good

• Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

  

  Jennifer Pahlka
  • Trying
  • Business
  • America

• I like being immersed in other peoples’ situations, I find that very inspiring. I don’t like to look inwards too much when I’m starting to think about records or different songs. I’m a keen observer. It’s endlessly fascinating.

  

  Bright Light Bright Light
  • People
  • Inspiring
  • Immersed

• My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

  

  Joan Halifax
  • Work
  • War
  • Practice

• Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Nick Cummins
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Comes