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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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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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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There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
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I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still.
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There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.
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I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
