Nick Lampson (Nicholas Valentino Lampson) Quotes

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

Nick Lampson

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• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Good
  • High

• There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Broken
  • Wine
  • Drunk

• I'm a little bit of a control freak.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Control
  • Little
  • Freak

• I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Up
  • Day
  • Wife

• Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Out
  • Carried
  • Atrocities

• And his money he cannot eat.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money

• For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Team

• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Friend

• I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bit moody, and I was constantly getting angry. That's not me. And when I saw that I knew I had to change.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Tired
  • Golf
  • Angry

• I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Good
  • Today

• The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Real
  • Mirror

• I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Up

• Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Rain

• Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with him on the campaign trail, but she did not give speeches or even many interviews. She never stood in front of a group of reporters and expounded on her views and opinions.

  

  Patti Davis
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.

  

  Marie Brennan
  • Up
  • Mind
  • She

• I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

  

  Alan Sillitoe
  • Life
  • Dull
  • Bait

• If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

  

  James Dyson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

  

  Nick Lampson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Risking