Nick McDonell (Robert Nicholas "Nick" McDonell) Quotes
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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I am so inspired by new media.
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I go to movies. I blend in.
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I did Second City, and Nia Vardalos also did Second City, so I knew her from there.
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My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.
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Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.
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Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.
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I'm sure, in real life, spying is boring - there's probably a lot of sitting around and plenty of paperwork. But the world seems to think that spying is exciting, and that's how movies get made.
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I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
