Nick Denton (Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton) Quotes

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• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Listen
  • Jazz
  • Mainstream

• I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Always
  • Been
  • Enthusiastic

• Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Difficult
  • Patience
  • Lie

• The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Education

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Best

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Express

• Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Everybody
  • Idiosyncrasies

• This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Thought
  • Transformation

• Death, only, renders hope futile.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Futile

• I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Change
  • Creativity
  • Jazz

• I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Care

• I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Things

• Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Time
  • Desire
  • Look

• There is no way that something that can’t be touched by hand would be okay to be inserted to the mouth.

  

  Jun Matsumoto Arashi
  • Way
  • Hand
  • Touched

• Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Country
  • Future

• I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Work
  • Father
  • Conclusion

• The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • World
  • Mind
  • Poet

• Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

  

  Nick Denton
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