Nick Lampson (Nicholas Valentino Lampson) Quotes
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
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I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.
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The Bush Doctrine is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt and isolate this republic. This overthrows the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about what America should be all about.
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I think it's time, not for the Washington Redskins to change their name but for the Democratic Party to change its name. Because all you have to do is go online and look up the history of the Democratic Party. It's one of oppressing African-Americans. It's one of supporting slavery and the horrors that occurred in the United States.
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The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
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I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.
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Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.
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Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.
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But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
