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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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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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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Impatience is a virtue.
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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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I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
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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 want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.
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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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When you put yourself out there as an expert and the people you are trying to attract are people who want to do the very show you are doing, guys standing around, sitting around arguing with each other over sports, if you make a mistake that lights up like a flare in the middle of the night. You've just got to correct that or else they're going to say, 'Well, why do these dopes have that show? I can go out there and be just as good as them.'
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Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!
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I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.
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You see a lot of European influence coming in with bigger guys having a larger skill set, shoot the ball, handle the ball, pass the ball. I'm hoping that'll develop into something I can do.
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I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
