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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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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It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.
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I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It's always an opportunity for a director to say something substantial and interesting.
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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door, but only as long as it's not visible from the street.
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Time is a dream, he thinks, a destroying dream;It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.Where was the woman he loved? Where was his youth?Where was the dream that burned his brain like fire?Even a dream grows grey at last and falls.
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Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.
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All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.
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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.
