Nick Hornby (Nicholas Peter John Hornby) Quotes
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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To me, style is consistency.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.
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Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
