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
  • Name
  • More

• 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
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• 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
  • May

• 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
  • Information

• 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
  • Good
  • 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
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• 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

• As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

  

  James Wolk
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Die

• There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Father
  • Weird
  • Motivated

• The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Couple
  • Close
  • West

• What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • People
  • Love
  • New

• As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Team
  • Rest
  • Road

• I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Life
  • Rest

• I am reminded of the old court jester who was supposed to entertain his king with interesting stories and antics. He looked at the king who was lolling on his throne, a drunken, filthy rascal, doffed his cap and bells, and said with a mock gesture of obeisance, “O king, be loyal to the royal within you.” And so I say to you young people today, remember your heritage, and be loyal to that royal lineage that you have as members of the church and kingdom of God on the earth.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• 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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  • Hands