Nick McDonell (Robert Nicholas "Nick" McDonell) Quotes
I know that I work hard for the things that I do, and I really go to the places that I report on.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
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AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at.
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I know that I work hard for the things that I do, and I really go to the places that I report on.
