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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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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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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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 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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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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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I would love to go to film school.
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
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Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
