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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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
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Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.
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We have to work together. We have to support each other. When we hear about a wonderful woman, we have to tell other women about her. Help her, prop her up. Give her what she needs. That's a big lesson.
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I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.
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I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
