Nick Flynn Quotes
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.
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There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
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Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.
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I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
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I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.
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As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.
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I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
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I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar faces.
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I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.
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Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
