Nick Dempsey (Nicholas Charles Dempsey) Quotes

As an athlete, my first Olympic experience was Sydney 2000. I remember seeing people getting medals, and I thought, 'Wow, that's where I want to be.'

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• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Know
  • Insult
  • Martial Arts

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Business
  • Level
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• And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Perfect
  • Marriage
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• What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Chance
  • Commitment
  • Will

• The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Up
  • Church

• I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Great
  • Different
  • Experience

• There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Always
  • Playing
  • Pictures

• I'm a proud Welshman.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Proud

• I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Home
  • Snow

• 'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mother

• You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Fool
  • Compassion

• I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Father

• In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Art
  • Feelings
  • Horror

• I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.

  

  Mikhail Prokhorov
  • Sports
  • Hobbies

• I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Best

• It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

  

  Epictetus
  • Concern
  • Directed
  • Copulation

• Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

  

  Umar
  • Inspiring
  • Arrogance
  • Arrogant

• As an athlete, my first Olympic experience was Sydney 2000. I remember seeing people getting medals, and I thought, 'Wow, that's where I want to be.'

  

  Nick Dempsey
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Olympic