Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo (Nick Faldo) Quotes
I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
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When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.
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I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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At age 7 In eight hours of concentrated practice between my twice-weekly lessons, I memorized the A major and played it for Persinger.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?
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Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.
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I like the big questions.
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There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.
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I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses.
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I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
