Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes

Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

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• I believe that dogma is often evil.

  

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• At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
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• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

  Ralph Lauren
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• Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
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• I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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  • Waiting

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
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• Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Medical
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• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Movie
  • Sense

• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Done
  • Career
  • Years

• I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Game
  • Man
  • Proud

• A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Job
  • Career
  • Hate

• Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Museums

• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Growth

• If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Movie
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• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• Ὄξος τ' ἄλειφά τ' ἐγχέας ταὐτῷ κύτειδιχοστατοῦντ' ἂν οὐ φίλως † προσεννέποις.

  

  Aeschylus

• Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, you can go crazy too.Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, I wanna go crazy with you.Everybody sayin' 'Woah, how sweet it is. Woah.'Yeah, it felt good on my lips.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Good
  • Crazy
  • Sweet

• Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Band
  • Grunge

• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Create
  • Life is
  • Boundaries

• So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • World
  • Present

• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Me
  • Thoughts

• Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Outsiders