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 like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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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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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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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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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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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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My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.
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I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.
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With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
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See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.
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Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
