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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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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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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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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I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
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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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You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.
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Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
