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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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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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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When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.
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We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.
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And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.
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Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
