Nick Lampson (Nicholas Valentino Lampson) Quotes
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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.
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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.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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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.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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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.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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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.'
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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And his money he cannot eat.
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For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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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.
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
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The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
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But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I don't think you ever die on Buffy.
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You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
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There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
