Nick McDonell (Robert Nicholas "Nick" McDonell) Quotes

I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.

Nick McDonell

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• You can't choose up sides on a round world.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • Choose

• I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Different
  • Career

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Remember
  • Point
  • Meals

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Company
  • Started
  • Then

• There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Earth

• Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Faith

• I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

  

  David Hunt
  • Long
  • Done

• It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Fitness

• Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• I don't like to talk about my personal life.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Life

• And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Fighting
  • Democracy

• David Gregory is known by and respected by many for his years of service to the Tennessee Board of Regents and in many roles in state government.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Service

• There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it's so rare.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Life

• Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

  

  Elizabeth Arden

• You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Fall
  • Helping
  • Humans

• It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• And my daughter really likes Justin Bieber, so I think she'll have fun watching him. But I think Rihanna is the perfect match for the Victoria's Secret show because she's really beautiful, she's really sexy, and she's really talented.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • She
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.

  

  Ned Kelly
  • Life
  • Come
  • Suppose

• I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.

  

  Nick McDonell
  • Helping
  • Integrity
  • Getting