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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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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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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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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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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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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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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You want your partner to objectify you.
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Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known.
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Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
