Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes

London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."

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• It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Difficult
  • More
  • Name

• The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • House
  • Beginning
  • Voice

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Lucky
  • Very

• I liked to play dress-up.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Up
  • Play
  • Liked

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
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  • Many
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• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
  • Will

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Good
  • Work
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• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Want
  • Culture
  • Popular

• As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Want
  • Fake
  • Teeth

• But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Drinking

• Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Different
  • Blue
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• Lying is the rule, not the exception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Lying
  • Rule
  • Exception

• First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

  

  Edmund White
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  • Christian
  • Marriage

• My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Successful
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• My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thought
  • Require
  • Contrived

• Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • New
  • New York
  • Teenager

• I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Music

• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Writing
  • Choices

• The stakes are nothing less than the future of liberal democracy. We are engaged in a new war of ideas, not communism versus capitalism, but authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government.

  

  Adam Schiff
  • War
  • Future
  • Democracy

• London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
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