Nick Hornby (Nicholas Peter John Hornby) Quotes
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.
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I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'
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The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
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With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
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I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
