Nick Dempsey (Nicholas Charles Dempsey) Quotes
The reality is being an Olympic windsurfer is bloody hard work, and it is a huge commitment.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.
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Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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The reality is being an Olympic windsurfer is bloody hard work, and it is a huge commitment.
