Nicholas Davies (Nick Davies) Quotes
It is a rule of life in the power elite that there is no such thing as a purely social act.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
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I don't do social media.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
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As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
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I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.
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Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.
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Sometimes you’re conscious of it, but sometimes the consciousness is what gets in the way of things. That’s when it goes wrong, a little bit, sometimes.
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In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it. In the process, they are creating financial-sector and cross-border risks that will become increasingly apparent as countries exit their unconventional policies.
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If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
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Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.
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It is a rule of life in the power elite that there is no such thing as a purely social act.
