Nick Denton (Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton) Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
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When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.
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I try to do my best.
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I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
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I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.
